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stances a fair trial, by feeding them alternately to 

 our fry and carefully noting the result, we at 

 length devised a plan which in our hands, and in 

 the hands of all who have tried it, has thus far 

 succeeded perfectly. 



A beef's heart or kidney is taken, and with a 

 sharp knife cut in pieces about an inch square. 

 If heart is used, all skin, arteries, valves, and 

 other fibrous portions which can not be readily 

 cut are rejected. The pieces are then moistened 

 with water and chopped to a pulp. This was for- 

 merly done with a hatchet and knife a work of 

 no small labor. We now accomplish it by means 

 of the " American Chopper," of which a cut is 

 annexed (Fig. 23). 



FIG. 23. 



We have tried other choppers, but this alone 

 has given perfect satisfaction. Not only is the 

 meat thoroughly, quickly, and minutely chopped, 

 but the machine is simple, not liable to get out of 



