Show CEMENT MIXTURES FOR FARM there is a constantly increasing use or of cement on farms in making repairs laying sidewalks and floors and erecting buildings in cement work a 1 2 3 mixture means mea ns that to each sack of cement there are tw two n cubic feet of sand and three CU cubic life I 1 leet of gravel or crushed stone the sand fills the spaces between the particles of gravel and the cement filis falls the spaces spaces between betwee it tile ne particles ot of sand Sand passes through a no 4 screen that is a careen having tour four spaces to the linear inch the spaces are about five inches long giaver is retained by a no 4 screen 11 II U B white who Js is a member ot of the staff ot of agricultural engineering approves a or 0 1 2 3 tor for basement poultry li hog house and cow barn floors floods which should range in ili thickness from three Inches Anches in ili the case of oe poultry house floors to four and ono halt half inches tor for cow barn floors Side sidewalks malks should be four and one halt half inches thick and made ot of a 1 2 3 inix mixture ture which is also alo recommended ator posts tanks and troughs homsta barn floors ot of the 1 2 ap 3 ratio sn should be five and one half inches in i |