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DAVID BRUCE. Chaff-Cutting Machines Act. ~ Standard Cyclo- 

 pedia of Modern Agriculture, edited R. P. Wright, vol. III. 

 London, 1909, p. 166. 



By the Chaff-cutting Machines (Accidents) Act, 1897, it is pro- 

 vided that every Chaff-cutting Machine worked by motive power, 

 than manual labour, shall so far as reasonably practicable be 

 itted with a contrivance to prevent the hand or arm of the person 

 feeding the machine from being drawn between the rollers to the 

 The flywheel and knives must be kept sufficiently fenced 

 during the working. Anyone contravening the provisions of the Act 

 liable to a penalty not exceeding 5, and in the prosecution 

 the owner of the machine, or the person for whose benefit it is 

 ed, if it is shown that the machine did not comply with the re- 

 quirements of the Act, such person shall be deemed to have per- 

 mitted the same, unless he satisfy the Court he took all reasonable 

 precaution to comply with the requirements of the Act. Any con- 

 stable acting on the instruction of an inspector may enter premises 

 to inspect a machine. 



XLIX. 



Preparation of products for the market. Marketing. Storage 

 and Refrigeration of agricultural products. 



W. Y. SULIS (U. S. Vice-Consul in Liverpool). Consumption of 

 Cold-storage Provisions in the United Kingdom. Monthly 

 Constilar and Trade Reports, April 1909, n. 343, p. 126. 



U. S. Vice-Consul W. J. Sulis, of Liverpool, sends a report on the 

 development of refrigeration in the transportation of foodstuffs, 

 and the increased imports of such articles into the United Kingdom^ 

 of which the following is a re'sumd : 



The transportation and preservation of perishable produce has 

 become one of the most serious problems which can engage the 

 attention of engineers and others interested in the efficacious and 

 rapid dispatch of foodstuffs from one part of the world to the 



