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TWO KINDS OF A GATE. 
The thoughts of these young women 
pictured in Fig. 439 would be “unfit for 
publication,” and no one will blame 
them. There they are with their best 
white dresses on, going to make a call. 
They “cut across” to save time and 
come to a sagging gate. You know the 
kind—where the posts are loose and 
where the gate must he lifted and swung 
A SOLID GATE. Fio. 438. 
around. It is a hard lift for the women 
at best, but when it sags it is worse yet. 
Of course too it is well plastered with 
dust or mud, and these dresses will 
carry away some of that fertile soil be¬ 
fore the gate is closed. The gate shown 
at Fig. 438 is a very different proposi¬ 
tion. This one is firm and solid. The 
posts do not “give” and the gate does 
not sag when opened. A push closes it. 
A farmer may say that he doesn't keep 
power would be less than . 12 . This is 
supposing the motor is supplied through 
10 feet of ^ 4 -inch pip e > the water having 
been brought through 1,650 feet of two- 
inch pipe, the spring having sufficient 
capacity to maintain the maximum dis¬ 
charge possible. The two-inch pipe 
would give sufficient pressure for using 
a 34 -inch hose with nozzle for washing 
purposes, and running full without any 
contraction at the end, it would dis¬ 
charge something more than 50 gallons 
per minute, so that to utilize a two-inch 
pipe the spring should have a minimum 
capacity of about 50 gallons per min¬ 
ute. F. H. ICING. 
Basic Slag. 
L. B. T., Troy, A. V.—What is Thomas 
phosphate powder, or basic slag? I have 
used considerable lime, and want to use a 
lot more. So- far, it has been too expensive. 
Ans.—T he basic slag is a by-product 
in iron making. Some iron ores contain 
considerable phosphorus. We all under¬ 
stand how necessary this is in fertilizer, 
but when left in iron the metal is brittle, 
so it must be taken from the ore. It is 
done through the great "affinity” or at¬ 
traction the phosphorus has for lime. 
When the two are put together a chemi¬ 
cal combination is made. Advantage is 
taken of this fact. A quantity of lime 
is put into the melted ore. This attracts 
the phosphorus, forming phosphate of 
lime. The iron is then run off by itself 
and the lime and phosphorus and other 
impurities harden into the basic slag. 
It is ground into a fine powder and 
sold as a fertilizer. On the average it 
will contain about half its weight of 
lime and about 18 per cent of phos¬ 
Witen you write advertisers mention Tub 
R. N.-Y. and you'll get a quick reply and 
“a square deal.” See guarantee page 10. 
NO THANKSGIVING ABOUT THIS JOB. Fig. 
439. 
gates to accommodate the wife and 
daughters when they dress up, yet that 
is no reason why they should sag and 
slip. Brace them up ! 
Piping for Small Motor. 
E., BainbruUje , A. Y .—What is the small¬ 
est pipe I can use to bring water to the 
house from a spring 100 rods away with 
a fall of 150 feet and have enough water 
to run a small water motor, and to use a 
hose for washing wagons? 
Ans. —The term “small water motor” 
is too indefinite in meaning to permit a 
definite answer to be given. Where 
water has to be carried over a distance 
of 100 rods the friction in small pipe 
is very great, so that even with a head 
of 150 feet a three-inch pipe would only 
discharge something like 148 gallons per 
minute. If the spring has this capacity, 
and a small water motor was attached, 
taking its supply through a one-inch 
pipe 10 feet long, the theoretical power 
which it could develop would be only 
about .6 horse power, and not more 
than 75 per cent of this could be made 
available, so that a three-inch pipe, with 
sufficient water, could be expected to 
yield only about .45 horse power under 
the conditions stated. If the spring has 
capacity for maintaining a full flow in 
only a two-inch pipe, only about .14 
theoretical horse power could be de¬ 
veloped from it, so that the effective 
phoric acid. It is coming into use more 
and more, especially for such crops as 
grass and grain, fruit and on garden 
crops which require lime. 
Dripping Chimney. 
W. W. P., Melrose, A. Y .—What will pre¬ 
vent the drip from a wood-stove pipe and 
the eause of same? Everything about 
wood, stove and pipe, including ehimney, is 
as it has been for years but this Fall we 
have iiad this trouble. 
Ans. —This drip is pyroligneous acid, 
consisting of some of the carbohydrates 
of wood in solution with water. There 
is seldom any trouble except when 
green wood is used. Then the vapors 
from the burning wood entering the 
cold chimney are condensed and find 
outlet down the pipe. The drip is most 
troublesome with crooked or indirect 
chimneys, or where fires are not kept 
going all the time, so that the chimney 
gets cold. The remedy is to burn dry 
wood and see that there is sufficient 
draft to drive out the vapors. 
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