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connected with it bya pipe furnished with a stop-cock, a second 
cistern of smaller size, having a ball-valve to regulate the sup- 
ply of water when it is turned on is, fixed. Attached to the 
small cistern is another iron pipe having two branches, one 
of which is carried from end to end of the truck on either side 
underneath the projecting part of the floor, so as to be secure 
from injury, and not to interfere with the loading or unload- 
ing of the cattle. Each of the side pipes has five outlets con- 
nected with india-rubber tubes, which have at their other end 
a circular-shaped tin pan, about ten inches in diameter and 
three inches in depth. When not in use, the pans are hung 
on hooks screwed into the side of the truck at sufficient 
height to keep the tubes tolerably tight. To water the cattle, 
all that is required is to place the pans inside the truck on the 
floor, their size readily admitting of this being done by slipping 
them between the floor and the sides of the truck, and then 
to turn on the water from the upper cistern. As the cattle 
drink the w ater keeps rising in the pans, so that each animal 
can obtain a sufficient supply w ithout any waste taking place. 
When all the animals have drunk, the flow 7 of w ater is stopped 
by simply turning the stop-cock between the two cisterns, 
and the truck is at once ready to proceed on the journey. 
Meat Preserving. — The Toronto Globe says that the 
meat preserving process, commonly known as the cc Gamgee 
process,” from which so much was at one time predicted, has 
not, on more extended trial, proved satisfactory, and is now 
practically considered a failure. We understand that nearly 
100,000 dollars have been expended in experiments w 7 ith this 
process. It was found that after a time, and on exposure to 
air, the flavour of the meat was changed, became sour and 
unpalatable, and its keeping quality was very seriously 
affected. 
What Dutch Butter is made of. — Robert Brown, 
19, labourer, was recently charged at the Thames Police 
court w ? ith being concerned, with three others not in custody, 
in breaking into the factory of John William Goodblood, 
and stealing sixty-four tons of suet, value £10. Four men 
were seen taking fat from the premises and putting it into a 
large truck. All the evidence against the prisoner was that 
he had been seen hanging about the factory for a w r eek pre- 
viously. 
Mr. Paget asked what was meant by a Dutch butter 
factory ? A w itness replied that the butter w as made in prose- 
cutor's factory, in Glaucus-street, Bromley. Mr. Paget — 
Nonsense. That is quite absurd. Mr. Lewis, the solicitor. 
