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of the house to the other, and will discharge its contents, 

 if any, by a waste pipe carried outside the house. 



Before laying the concrete, well ram the bottom of 

 the border, smooth and solid, and construct the middle 

 drain. 



CONCRETE. 



We presume almost every body engaged in rural 

 aifairs, knows how to make concrete, but all may not 

 know how to make it easily and perfectly. Our plan is 

 this. We first construct a mortar-bed, of sufficient size, 

 of boards. Then we slack one or more barrows of lime, 

 as required, in a lime box or tub, and add water till it 

 is reduced to the condition of thick cream or ordinary 

 whitewash. Now draw or dip off the lime water, free 

 from unslacked lumps or stone, and pour it into the 

 mortar-bed, first having placed around its edges a layer 

 of sand to keep the lime water from running ofi". Then 

 shovel or wheel into the bed a quantity of course sand, 

 gravel, and small, rough stones, sufficient to soak up 

 nearly all the lime water. Commence at the outer edge 

 of the heap, and hoe down and mix the mass, with a 

 mason's hoe, working it up a little into good, coarse mor- 

 tar, and tempering it with more lime water if needed, and 

 as it is hoed down, shovel it over into a heap on the outer 

 edge of the bed. Now it is ready for use. Let a laborer 

 shovel this coarse mortar into a barrow, and deposit it 

 upon the bottom of the border in a layer about two or 



