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the bottom. The elbow on the pipe turns up so that a section of 

 pipe can be screwed on reaching to the height desired for water 

 level in the tank. In this way it is an overflow pipe, when by re- 

 moving the section it becomes the drain pipe. The other ingredients 

 with costs were as follows : 



5 sacks Portland Cement $2 40 



2 loads sand, 3 loads gravel : 2 00 



2 men, one day each 2 00 



$6 40 



L. D. DUNAWAY, M. D., 



Caplinger Springs, ^lo. 



CEMENT TILING. 



I made and placed 5,000 feet of 4-inch cement tiling last year 

 and found them so satisfactory that we made 9,000 feet more, to be 

 laid this season. 



With the exception of the casting (A) and the casing (B) in 

 Fig. 31, we made the machine ourselves at a cost of $35.00. It is a 



Figure 30. Making cement tile on tlie farm. 



hand tiling machine with a single bar tamper. It is installed in the 

 frame shown in Fig. 30, the guide and round tamper arranged as 

 shown in Fig. 32 on truck and rollers, so that it can be rolled back 

 from the tile as in Fig. 33. The guide post sets on top of the inner 

 core and is kept in place by an iron pin extending from guide post 

 to )i inch hole at top of the inner core. The guide post is raised by 



