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Show CEMENT IN CONSTRUCTION OF THE FARM SCALES Implement 1li,u No Fiirmcr Cnn Well Get Alonu; Without untl MitiulJ lie Itullt n Sulfitiiniliil Miinner. Iy Fret! G. Miner. Now that a large corn crop Is pretty el Hinted, tiiaiiy farmers are cast lug about tor something to weigh their """i I bis Is right, nml a gotnl pair of St ali a h..ul, be on every farm. They l.nuld be put up substantially, nml. Poi-.ble, should he built so that '""" hay or straw and stock of all "Ms tun be weighed, writes Kred (I. "ilntr In rnrihera Union For tlila "' ale 1st be placed without a cover I am giving a plan of the way we built our scab s some years ago We first dug a trench about two feet deep. y '" Plan for Cement Foundation for Scales. This we filled about half full of ravel. We then used cement with ins gravel until we had reached about II Inches above the ground. We also nude our apparatus tit the same time. When we bad reached II Inches tilgh. we leveled the same, mid. Instead of using wis. di u or steel sills, we changed fr the well traveled road of scale building, mid decided to use cr no tit sills Our st ales are bolted it ssi h conn r - II. To keep the bolls is place we bud a wugon tire bent at rlglit angles ut t ilt h curlier, ami each one bml holes bored In It nt lust th right plnce to bolt the st ale Irons to it. These angle Irons were placed one it each comer I. They bold the bolts in place with the thread and down Inr enough to hold the scale Irons, li.ir form was then continued eight Indies higher and Hlleil with concrete con-crete nml II. v job was ntilslied. An opening hml ia be mnde for the scale lions ti me through the foundation. This wits done tiy using a board one-hall one-hall by sl Inches and bending In such a milliner In the foiin to allow for Ibis opening The scale platform was plat ed the snine as iisunt. ' The woo4 sill thut we replnced by the cement sill would have coat not less than tea dollars. dol-lars. It look ten dollars' worth of cement ce-ment for the entire Job, foundation, sill nnd approaches. We got the gravel lor the hu.illng. nml I and the hired man did the work. We used the scales for everything, and have weighed as much as tour ton a ut a tl Th neighbors In rebuilding nro using my plan, and all like It. It Is much cheaper than steel or wimhI and mors durable. |