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hospitals-- in hot countries, for brewers and distillers in keeping their worms 
cool, and also for the manufacture of chocolate, and in candle-works. Its 
simplicity, comparative inexpensiveness, as well as its non-liability to get out 
of order, constitute the machine a desirable one, and capable of very general 
as well as special application. Among the other uses, also, to which it is 
suggested it may be put is that of keeping cool, during summer, warehouses 
in which bacon and lard are stored, and the cooling of public markets, 
abattoirs, &c. As a scientific invention, however, the success of the 
machine is quite demonstrable; its practical utility the patentees and 
promoters will, no doubt, be prepared to show in due course. 
American Ideas of the Trade. 
The meat trade is naturally attracting considerable attention 
in America. It is a source of wealth to the farmers of that 
country, new and unexpected. They see in it a powerful 
impetus tending to the development of the vast agricultural 
resources of their country, and they hail it accordingly with 
considerable satisfaction. It may be said to have caused a 
feeling of satisfaction amongst American agriculturists almost 
equivalent in volume to the feeling of dismay with which 
farmers on this side regarded it for some time after it com- 
menced. Subsequent discussion seems to have toned down the 
feeling somewhat in both countries, particularly in this. The 
general impression in the States, among the exporters, farmers, 
and cattle-salesmen, is, that the trade will speedily become a very 
large one ; that it will assume a permanent character, and that 
it will be carried on quite as successfully, or at all events 
relatively so, in summer as in winter. They consider the 
supply of cattle to be already nearly unlimited, and that in the 
near future it will become, for all purposes of the trade, quite 
inexhaustible. They also think the rates of conveyance, over- 
land and over-sea, will remain as they are at present, or at all 
events that they will not advance much ; and they believe that 
the cost of production of beef and mutton, for a long time to 
come, will remain as low as it is now. They do not consider 
that the export trade will materially affect the retail prices of 
meat in New York — except perhaps of the best qualities, 
because it is of these that the exportation almost exclusively 
consists at present. The better qualities have been raised about 
one cent per pound by the retail butchers, but it is not thought 
that the exportation alone will bring about a further increase, 
at all events not for some time to come. In fact, the cattle 
already exported to this country seem to have been for the most 
part surplus fat stock, which in the present depressed condition 
of trade would have been difficult to get rid of in the home 
markets at remunerative prices. Time will, I believe, more or 
