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CONCRETE WATER TANK WARMER. 
W. II. II., Letcher, S. D. —Can cement 
water tanks be built so as to build a lire 
under them to warm w r ater for stock? 
Being wet or moist more or less at all 
times, would the heat be liable to crack 
them ? 
Ans.—T he scheme of building a con¬ 
crete water tank with a lire underneath 
is hardly practicable. The heat from 
the fire would in all probability not do 
any harm to the concrete, but owing to 
the low conductivity of this material it 
would be a rather difficult matter to 
heat the water in the tank, as the walls 
and bottom of the tank would probably 
have to lie about six inches thick. A 
CEMENT TANK WARMER. 
very easy method, however, of heating 
the water in shown in the sketch given 
above. This scheme, as c m be seen, con¬ 
sists of simply a spiral pipe on the out¬ 
side of the tank, one end of the spiral 
entering the tank near the bottom and 
the other end just below the water 
level. Care must be taken that the 
water does not drop below the upper 
end of the spiral. By building a fire 
around the spiral the water can easily 
be raised to the desired temperature. 
When the tank is built holes can be 
made in the desired position in the side 
by inserting plugs between the forms. 
These plugs should be slightly tapered 
so they can be withdrawn when the 
concrete has set Care must be taken 
in placing the pipe in the concrete that 
a tight joint is made. This can be done 
by packing between the pipe and the 
hole in the wall and then plastering on 
the outside and inside with cement. 
p. H. w. 
SALT AND CEMENT WORK. 
8. TP. Z., Philippi, W. Va. —I have a 
cement floor that was built some years ago 
that has become crumbly. It is in my 
smoke-house, where I keep my salt and 
meat. Ha» the salt anything to do with 
it? I put cement floor in my cellar about 
the same time that is good as it ever was, 
and they were both mixed as near alike as 
1 could get them, two parts cement and 
three parts sand with good sand rock beaten 
up small. I find that where the salt leaks 
on rocks they will crumble. 
Ans. —The magnesium sulphate and 
other impurities of common salt com¬ 
bine with the lime and alumina of the 
cement in concrete, forming other com¬ 
pounds. In the formation of these com¬ 
pounds they expand and break up the 
concrete, causing it to crumble. The 
action of the magnesium sulphate and 
other similar substances is believed to 
have been responsible for the failure of 
many concrete structures located in sea 
water, such as dams, piers, etc., and 
much investigation of this difficulty has 
been made, but nothing can be done to 
prevent cement being decomposed in 
time if in contact with these salts. A 
coating or filling is of little value, for 
if the substance gets in anywhere it eats 
through the mass. Portland cement as 
free from lime and alumina as possible, 
mixed with sand which is not too fine, 
and with probably graded sizes of stone, 
so as to get a smooth mass which is not 
porous, is the best that can be done. 
The sand should be about one part of 
fine to two parts of coarse, while the 
stone should not be screened, but should 
be a mixture of various grades from 
about Jg-inch to two inches in size. A 
good proportion is one part loose 
cement, two parts loose sand, and seven 
parts loose stone. It is very important 
that the surface be made real smooth, 
and that the concrete be allowed to dry 
thoroughly before using the floor. A 
good wooden floor would be much bet¬ 
ter so far as its resistance to the action 
of salt is concerned. r. p. c. 
THE WONDER OF THE WONDERBERRY. 
In prohibition States enforcement of 
the law develops a class of “bootleg¬ 
gers/’ Rum-selling being made unlawful 
and disreputable, people go about on the 
sly with bottles in their boot legs—sell¬ 
ing a drink where they could find some 
one with a taste as strong as their own 
sense of depravity. The Wonderberry 
dealers are still at it. The plant has 
been chaseor out of most of the cata¬ 
logues—but while they keep out of print 
some of the seedsmen are trying a little 
“boot-legging.” Here, for instance, is 
part of a letter written one of our read¬ 
ers by H. W. Buckbee: 
tYe also note your remarks about Wonder- 
berry, and beg to call your attention to 
the fact that you are very much mistaken 
that we would offer anything for sale of a 
poisonous nature, and we make yon the fol¬ 
lowing proposition, viz.: Visit us next Sum¬ 
mer and sec the Wonderberry growing, and 
we will pick the berries in your presence 
and make same into pie and assure you it 
will equal the genuine huckleberry in flavor, 
and if you can prove it is poisonous we will 
give you a check for $1,000, and pay your 
expenses of $25 per day while you are away 
from home. This Wonderberry was hydrid- 
ized by Luther Burbank, the wizard of 
California, and is indorsed by the best and 
most reliable horticulturists in America, and 
you are missing a great fruit and a splendid 
substitute for the huckleberry if you do not 
grow it for yourself. H. w. bcckbek. 
Our opinion has not been called for, 
but we think this man will get his $1,000 
about the time Mr. Burbank sends us 
that $10,000 which he was going to pay 
when some one proved that the Wonder¬ 
berry is nightshade! Mr. Buckbee ought 
to get those two old people in Michi¬ 
gan, who nearly died from eating Won- 
derberries, to sample his pie. We doubt 
if they would taste it for the $1,000. As 
we showed two years ago, one result of 
nightshade poisoning is the tendency to 
talk too much in extravagant language. 
Mr. Buckbee and John Lewis Childs 
probably eat Wonderberries all through 
the catalogue season. 
Jim, who worked in a garage, had just 
declined Mr. Smith’s invitation to ride 
in his new car. “What’s the matter, 
Jim?” asked Mr. Smith. “Are you 
sick?” “No, sah,” he replied. “’Tain’t 
that—I done los’ $5, sah, an’ I jes’ natch- 
erly got tuh sit an’ grieve.”—Success 
Magazine. 
“This world’s a stage,” said the ready¬ 
made philosopher. “Mebbe so,” replied 
Farmer Corntossel. “But it ain’t any 
minstrel show. Business ain’t arranged 
so that the middleman always gets the 
joke out on him while the men at both 
ends of the line do the laughin’. Not 
yet.”—Washington Star. 
i Son, Our New Concrete Home Will Outlast You 
and Your Children’s Great-Grandchildren.” 
“Your mother and I planned and thought a long while before we 
made up our mind how to build. You had a lot to do with our decision. 
We wanted you to be proud of your home when you grow up—we wanted 
to build one that you could leave to your children—one that future gen¬ 
erations could take pride in as ‘the family home.’ 
“We found that concrete was the only material for our purpose that 
was within our means.” 
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