1911 
THE RXJRA.L, NEW-YORKER 
411 
FIGURING CEMENT AND SAND. 
M. V., Perryman, Md .—Will you advise 
me the number of barrels of cement and 
the quantity of sand and gravel it will 
take to build a wall 170 feet long and 
seven feet high? This wall is for a barn 
with a cow stable underneath, and I shall 
leave it to your judgment as to width. I 
also wish to put a cement floor in an old 
barn cellar. Will you give me the amount 
of material necessary to do that job also? 
Its dimensions are 60x30. 
Ans.— The amount of material to 
build a wall of this size will be about 
as follows, if used in tbe following pro¬ 
portions : One part cement, three sand, 
seven parts gravel, cement 50 barrels, 
l ~ l /2 tons; sand, 150 barrels, gravel 350 
barrels. The wall should be started 18 
inches wide and battered back to 10 
inches at top unless the building is ex¬ 
pected to carry an unusually heavy load; 
then it should be made 12 inches at top. 
The batter should all be on outside or 
face of wall, keeping the inside perpen¬ 
dicular, but unless building material is 
unusually high in your locality I would 
make the wall half that high, then use 
an under frame. With matched lumber 
the height of basement, you could save 
a little money perhaps and still have a 
first-class job and be plenty warm 
enough for cows in your locality. 
For the barn cellar I would put down 
a mixture of the same proportion 1-3-7, 
five inches thick, which would take 32 
barrels cement, 96 sand and 224 gravel, 
then put a hard surface one inch thick 
on top of one part cement and three 
parts sand, which will take 17J4 barrels 
cement and 52 sand. I would prefer 
the ashes from an electric light or some 
large plant where they use soft coal ex¬ 
clusively for fuel instead of the gravel 
for your floor; it gets very hard and I 
think will stand better than gravel where 
there is much jar or tramping, such as a 
cement floor of that kind is subject to. 
W. A. B. 
STILL ANOTHER “HORSE COMPANY.” 
I had a very broad smile when I finished 
reading the article by J. Grant Morse in a 
recent R. N.-Y. with regard to his stallion 
investment, but if his outcome proves the 
same as mine he will not be sorry for it. 
1 was approached in the same way by the 
same smooth story, and bit, and paid 
$147.60 for one-twentieth interest in a 
$2,000 stallion, that being on accumulated 
interest and four poor endorsers on joint 
note, leaving 16 endorsers to pay the total. 
The stallion was kept and traveled by one 
of the stockholders for $200 per annum, he 
to take his pay from service money. After 
seven years of association ownership the 
horse was sold at auction for $275, that 
being about enough to pay the last debt on 
the original purchase, his service fees just 
balanced his keeping, he being about a 20 
per rent foal-getter. At the time we bought 
the horse I had two fine young high-grade 
Percheron mares, and there being no choice 
of stallions in my vicinity was the main rea¬ 
son for my investing. My first colt was a 
stallion which has proved an excellent foal- 
getter; will prove near 75 per cent for last 
season. lie weighs 1500 pounds in work¬ 
ing order, and he works every day that I 
have use for a horse or team, both 
on the road and farm, and is as quiet as 
any gelding. lie will stand hitched to a 
tool in the field for an hour at a time with 
no one near, and will do his own part in 
a two, three or four-horse team. Last 
year he was hitched on the mower and 
worked on every job I had, even to the 
horse fork, where he would unload a whole 
load of hay without a driver, only by word. 
Last Spring I sold four colts from the 
old stallion, three years, four years and five 
years old, for $1,000. Later I sold a wean¬ 
ling, grandson of the old stallion, for $150, 
he being from a Brilliant-bred stallion. 
I now have a stallion and two mares left 
out of the deal. 
I will now tell of my bad luck in breed¬ 
ing, as it will always come to a breeder. 
My first big loss was one of the original 
mares, which aborted when I was on the 
road, losing a pair of twin colts, she dying 
a week later. The same Winter 1 lost a 
brood mare and a two-year-old; then for 
three years the other mare lost her colts 
from one cause or other, all being different, 
so it can be easily figured that without the 
loss I could have nearly $1,500 worth of 
horses at the present time. I was visiting 
the late Henry Waldron some time ago, he 
being a breeder and seller of stallions, and 
asked if the business of selling stallions on 
the association plan was generally satis¬ 
factory. His answer was that it was more 
satisfactory to the buyer than to the seller. 
He said the greatest trouble was with the 
agent, who did not care who he got on the 
notes as long as he got his commission. 
Then he went on to say that it was the 
greatest good to the horse industry of any¬ 
thing he knew in putting good stallions be¬ 
fore the public, as it would be next to im¬ 
possible to sell for cash and do any amount 
of business. There are two faults in buy¬ 
ing these stallions; one is the high price, 
of which a great share is the expense of 
selling, which amounts to about 40 or 50 
per cent of the selling price. The other is 
the condition the horse is grown in; the 
horse docs not do anything but grow and 
put on fat. It is not unusual to see a ton 
stallion on a 1500 pound frame. Where 
the stallion is in that condition he is no 
more fit to breed than a fat bull or boar 
that has been shut up and fed all he can 
eat without any exercise. 
My advice to Mr. Morse and all the rest 
who have “signed up” is to pay their little 
dividend and forget it, and use the best 
mare they have, and unless they are good 
ones don’t breed them at all, but buy a 
good one or two of the same breed as the 
stallion, but don't cross, and when you 
have a two-year-old filly breed her to the 
same breed if you have to go 50 miles to 
find a suitable stallion. The greatest trou¬ 
ble with the horses in our locality is that 
they are promiscuously bred; nearly all 
have some standard or Thoroughbred 
blood. Some one will come along with a 
good-looking Clyde. A man will say “there 
is old Molly that can’t do much, so I will 
breed her, get a colt, the old mare can’t 
earn her keep anyway,” so he gets his colt, 
such as it is. Perhaps when the colt gets 
old it will be a Percheron that takes his 
eye, so he crosses again and he will have 
nothing but a mongrel in the end. Up in 
the “thumb” of Michigan are raised some 
of the best horses in the State, and the 
buyers know it and go regularly every year 
to pick up those that are for sale. There 
they can find very uniform type, as the 
breeders have their favorite breed and 
breed along those lines. Pick your breed, 
stick to it, keep your best, sell your poor¬ 
est, work your mares, breed young and 
you will not be sorry you bit. 
Oakland Co., Mich. karl tibbitts. 
STATE MILK COMMISSION.—The Ways 
and Means Committee at Albany will 
amend the Foley bill, providing for a State 
Milk Commission to regulate the price of 
milk, so that it will apply only to New 
York City, instead of to all cities of the 
first class. In speaking for the measure 
at a hearing before the committee March 
8 John B. Coleman, who, as a Special 
Deputy Attorney General under Mr. O’Mal¬ 
ley, conducted an investigation into the 
milk situation in New York, declared that 
a monopoly for the purpose of fixing the 
prices of milk existed in New York City. 
He said the relation between supply and 
demand and prices there was a dead letter. 
“Proof cannot be obtained under the pres¬ 
ent anti-conspiracy law,” he said, “because 
the dealers do not enter into an agreement 
to raise the prices. They merely meet to 
discuss the business situation, and the 
price of milk then goes up. The dealers 
have the public by the throat, as milk is 
a necessity.” Mr. Coleman quoted from 
several decisions to show that it was within 
the power of the State to regulate prices. 
“Do you think that the time has arrived 
when the State should regulate the price of 
all monopolies?” asked Assemblyman Mer¬ 
ritt. 
“I do,” was the reply. 
“What do you consider a fair price for 
milk in New York City?” 
“When sold in bottles, seven cents in the 
Summer and nine cents in the Winter. At 
present the price is nine cents all the year 
around, and the producer receives only two 
and a half cents. The margin is unfair to 
both the producer and the public.” 
In speaking for the bill Assemblyman 
Foley, the introducer of the bill, said that 
the measure had been misrepresented to the 
farmers. They had been led to believe, he 
said, by the big milk dealers, that the price 
would have the effect of reducing the price 
paid to them, but he denied that it would 
in any way affect them. The representa¬ 
tives of dealers and farmers’ associations 
spoke against, the measure, arguing that it 
was not feasible to regulate prices by law, 
and that the present authorities can do all 
that should be done in the supervision of 
the milk business. Those who spoke 
against the bill included ex-Assembl.vman 
Beverly R. Robinson, representing the Bor¬ 
den Condensed Milk Company, of New York 
City ; .T. R. Stephens, C. N. Kellogg, of 
Cortland; D. C. Culver, of Dutchess Co.; 
Alfred Ely and B. E. Brumley, representing 
the New York Sanitary Milk Dealers’ As¬ 
sociation. 
Skim milk is being served to Harvard stu¬ 
dents in the dining hall, according to Will¬ 
iam A. Graustein, a milk contractor, who 
was a witness at a legislative hearing on 
the milk question at Boston March 8. Mr. 
Graustein supplied one of the dining halls 
until March 1 last. lie said that he knew 
that his statement was correct, for the rea¬ 
son that the steward had told him so and 
also from his own bills. One of the lawyers 
present at the hearing, who is counsel for 
the Massachusetts Milk Consumers’ Associa¬ 
tion, announced that he would bring the 
matter to the attention of the Harvard au¬ 
thorities. • 
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