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Show CEMENT FLOOR ... IS SUPERIOR ' Not Only Practicable bat Will Rai tarn Hig Profit In stavluar Manure llow to Uulld One. In response to a query regarding ' rcmonl floor for saving manure. Mr. H. H. Htnk.y of Ohio, makea the folluw- -" lug reply In thn llreeder's Gaxetle. Ilulletln No. 1N3 of the Ohio Kxperl. meut Htntlon snys thnt the saving of manure from (Il head of rattle, 2a on hard earth floor and ti oil romcnf lloor, waa (Ml morn on the cement ' than on the earth floor. Il Is stnted I nlso that half the roat of the cement ( i floor was saved In six months' feeding. ( t Ho one sees It Is not only practicable? I I but will pay big returna In aavlng ma- 1 i nura, to any nothing of having thn cat- I f tto wading kneedeep In tho mud. 1 ' A concrete yard floor ran be put a y down directly on the earth, after M ;' scraping off the top-so.l until a bard m j level floor la obtalm-J; but It Is best W 1 '; to excavate 10 or 13 Inches and fill 1 I, In with 9 or Inches of gravel or cln- j T dera. so that water will not atand un- der the concrete and cause It to hoava 1 by frost. A curb or wall of concrete) ' IK Inchei deep ahould be built all ' I nrotind to keep out rnts, and also from r being undermined by hog wallows. For cattle the floor bad beat he ' l Inchea thick and for thn hog floor 4 Inches. A mixture of 1 cement, 2 sand t and 4 parte nf crushed atone paralDst fT through an Inch mesh, will make at , vi good lloor. If pit or creek gravel la y used, which has about thnt proportion lt ' of sand and gravel, our custom here j! . . Is to uso one barrel 14 sacks) to osan . if yard of grnvt-l. All this work can bar ' Y done by the ftirm help. If some ona i ,., with some knowledge or experiences can bo hud to superintend It. ' .' , ' |