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the wagon. A wide step is affixed to the wagon behind on whicfi 

 the driver stands when getting bottles at the rear of the wagon. 

 The floor is of sheet iron with an open slit at either side running- 

 the whole length to permit water draining through the bottom 

 of the wagon. There is a high tail-board, and the upper part of the 

 top of the wagon at the back is closed in for perhaps two feet from 

 the top to keep out the sun. Each of the boxes contains twelve 



Fig. 48. 



Milk Wagon. 



•quart milk bottles and the load consists of 240 quarts. The capac- 

 ity of the wagon arranged for sliding bottle-cases is a maximum of 

 204 quarts, but special arrangements might allow of greater capac- 

 ity. A wagon similar to that seen in Fig. 49 may be used for 

 hottles alone and will have a capacity of 256 quarts. The wooden 

 cases slide and may be easily reached from the seat as well as 

 Tear. Ice cannot, however, be used on the bottles in this wagon. 

 Such wagons have been used with an ice chamber overhead to 



