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Popular Scirurc Monthly 



A Sensible Feeding Bag for Horses 



ANEW feeding-bag for horses, de- 

 vised by George W. Waddell, of 

 Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, makes it 

 possible for the horse to feed in comfort. 



The old and the new way of feeding a horse 



This feeding-bag is l)0\vl-shaped and 

 not of cylindrical form. As it has hooks 

 at its four corners from which straps 

 and buckles extend to the horse's collar, 

 it is much more readily fastened to the 

 harness than the old-style bag. It is 

 readily cleaned and emptied, which can- 

 not be said of the old feeding-bag. Be- 

 sides, it can also be used for watering 

 the horse. Unlike the old-style feeding- 

 bag, it can be folded perfectly flat when 

 not in use and placed under the wagon- 

 seat. 



The accompanying illustration con- 

 trasts this modern, sanilarv feeding 

 equipment with the poorly-ventilated bag. 

 that has to be tossed about by the horse 

 if he wants to reach the last nioullirnl 

 of oats at the bottom. 



A Dreadnought's Buoy. 



A.S battleships have grown in size 

 so have the mooring buoys to 

 which these floating forts are made 

 fast. The one shown in the photo- 

 graph Avas recently turned out by a 

 British lirm. The buoy measures eight- 

 een feet in diameter, and has a depth 

 of thirteen feet. It is made of steel 

 ])lates three-eighths of an inch thick, 

 and has four water-tight compart- 

 ments. A forged iron mooring bar 

 passes through its center. It will 

 withstand a breaking strain of 185 

 tons. 



A wooden fender on the outside of 

 the buoy protects it from collisions. 

 This is made of elm and is one and 

 one-half feet wide and about the same 

 dimensions in depth. With mooring 

 bar the buoy weighs fifteen tons. It 

 carries a load of seven tons when one 

 of the bulkheads is filled with water. 



The smaller buoy seen in the photo- 

 graph has a diameter of three feet and 

 weighs two hundred pounds. 



The buoy of a dreadnought has a platform 

 all around on which the sailors can walk 

 to attach the cables. The small buoy is 

 of ordinary size — three feet in diameter 



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