Feeding Utensils and Gear. 1 6 1 



Colonel Duck's plan. The bad effect of cur- 

 tailing the surface over which the strain had 

 to be distributed in a feeding trough, is well 

 shown in Fig. 22. We were supplied with 

 these feeding buckets on board the Kelvin- 

 grove when she sailed for South Africa in 

 February, 1901, and although great care was 

 taken of them, only 88 of these buckets out of 

 525 remained intact to the end of the voyage. 

 Thanks to the clever suggestion of Mr. 

 Simpson, the Chief Officer, we kept many of 

 the broken ones in working order, by placing 

 a piece of wood inside the damaged bucket, 

 and nailing the hooks to it ; the hooks in this 

 case being placed on the outside of the 

 bucket. 



Iron mangers (feeding troughs or feeding 



buckets) are much preferable to wooden ones, 



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