. Eastern fruit . C£M£NT ^^A/O COA/CJ^STS MIXING CONCRETE ON THE FARM In a Garden at Moorestown. N. J., a Mo<l <m I'lanft Junior Seodor Openlnfc the Fur- row. I'laiitin^ the Seed, Covering, Ro'.Udk Down anil Marking Out the Next Row, all in One OpfTutlon. Not only pleasure, change and a bet-| — ter and fresher food supply, but there's profit in it besides. The man who can make a success of his busi ness can make a success of his gar- den, that Is also worth while. In a big city office the writer recently met a young married man who has a subur- ban home wlthm ten miles of Broad Street St
. Eastern fruit . C£M£NT ^^A/O COA/CJ^STS MIXING CONCRETE ON THE FARM In a Garden at Moorestown. N. J., a Mo<l <m I'lanft Junior Seodor Openlnfc the Fur- row. I'laiitin^ the Seed, Covering, Ro'.Udk Down anil Marking Out the Next Row, all in One OpfTutlon. Not only pleasure, change and a bet-| — ter and fresher food supply, but there's profit in it besides. The man who can make a success of his busi ness can make a success of his gar- den, that Is also worth while. In a big city office the writer recently met a young married man who has a subur- ban home wlthm ten miles of Broad Street Station. Two summers ago he turned over the sod with his spade on a little plot 21x33 feet. His friends told him It was a good job, but that he'd get nothing the first year. He uted fertilizer, bought the best of seeds and spent altogether a little less than three dollars. The lettuce was so big that a little girl could only carry two heads in her encircling arms. Several other crops reached a high degree of perfection. An account was kept at current store prices and the result was over thirteen dollars' worth of stuff taken off one-sixtieth of an acre. llluiil rut ion almwin-j; pruiMiilliiii i,r The best stone for crushed rock is one which is clean, hard, and breaks with sharp angles. Trap, granite, and: hard limestone are among the l)cst; the use of shale, slate, and soft liine-i stones and sandstones should be avoided. The crushed rock shouitl l)e screened on a 1-4-incli screen to re- move the fine particles. These small should be considered as sand: and, if insufficient In quantity to make the pr )i)er proportion of the concrete, a.'^ 's ilpscrlbed later, enough sand sliould 1 ' 'dded to them to pro- diKe the required amount. Well-Graded Gravel Good. Gravel w< 11 .L;raded In sizes is at least equally as good for concrete as Should be clean, so tlial the cement may adhere to it tightly. Sand Must Be Clean. With dirty sand, no amount of ce- ment will make stro
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