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FEEDING UTENSILS, AND GEAR. 



THE present galvanised sheet-iron feeding 

 troughs which are used on Government horse- 

 carrying transports, and which are shown in Fig. 

 1 8 (p. 121), serve their purpose fairly well ; their 

 only two faults being, as far as I can see, that 

 they cannot be fixed to their respective breast- 

 boards securely enough to prevent the horses 

 displacing them ; and that horses can more 

 or less easily throw food out of them. I 

 regret that I am not a good enough mechanic 

 to be able to devise a contrivance for the 

 removal of the first mentioned objection. As 



