1910. 
THE RL’KAb NEW-YORKER 
307 
COST OF CEMENT WALK. 
M. M., St. Louis, Mo .— IIow much 
sand, broken rock and cement will be re¬ 
quired to make a walk 48 feet long, 2% 
feet wide for back yard, and what is the 
proper amount of each ingredient to be 
used in mixing? Is it 1-3-5? What is the 
probable cost? 
Ans.— You should first excavate a 
trench one foot deep and six inches 
wider than the walk is to be. Then fill 
in this trench up to within four inches 
of the surface of the completed walk 
with gravel, cinders or broken stones 
pounded down hard, making a firm foun¬ 
dation, yet porous enough to furnish 
good drainage, which prevents the frost 
from cracking the cement walk. Make a 
form for the walk by placing a 2x4 stick 
on each side as far apart as the width 
of the walk. Fill in between these sticks 
to a depth of three inches with concrete 
mixed in the proportion of one part 
Portland cement, 2)4 parts clean sand 
and five parts coarse gravel or broken 
stones, and tamp well. On top of this 
and before it sets lay the finishing layer 
of cement and sand mixed well in the 
proportion of one part cement and two 
parts sand, leveling off smooth and even 
with the top edge of the form. The ce¬ 
ment costs about $2.50 per barrel here 
and the cost of the sand and gravel var¬ 
ies with the distance they have to be 
hauled. You will require for the walk, 
which will be four inches thick, about 
three barrels of cement, seven barrels 
of sand and 10 barrels of gravel. 
C. S. G. 
Destroying Weasels. 
Will some one give me a way to extermi¬ 
nate weasels? We have bad to give up 
raising young chicks, they are so bad. 
Merchantville, N. ,T. r. p. w. 
A small boy with a shotgun, some 
traps and a sporting tendency is the best 
thing I know of. Weasels seem to have 
no fear when once they get a taste of 
chicken, and a boy stimulated with a re¬ 
ward offered for each head will pretty 
nearly clean out the pest. Foxes have 
caused us far more loss than weasels, 
and it will take your best wit to beat 
them at the game. floyd q. white. 
Scab on Beets. 
E. IT. S. (No Address ).—I would like a 
little help. What do I do to one part of 
my garden that makes my beets scabby? 
The ground is quite sandy, and in hot Sum¬ 
mer the ground bakes, although I work 
in it right along. We have no old rotted 
manure, but use the oldest we have. The 
horse and cow manures are kept separately., 
I do not have much manure and would it 
not be better to use some good commercial 
fertilizer? 
Ans. —Scab on beets has been investi¬ 
gated bv several experiment stations. The 
inauirer will find descriptions of the dis¬ 
ease and other notes of interest relating 
to the disease in Bulletin No. 15 of the 
Iowa Station (Ames) and in Bulletin 
No. 39 of the Indiana Station (La Fay¬ 
ette). Beet scab is identical with the 
common potato scab, and the disease 
mav be transmitted directly from the 
potato. Treatment of the seed before 
sowing with corrosive sublimate is rec¬ 
ommended. To make this solution, use 
two ounces of corrosive sublimate to 16 
gallons of water, soak seed one hour and 
dry. The formalin treatment may be 
substituted if desired. If the soil is loose 
and friable, our friend would probably 
have less trouble from this disease if 
commercial fertilizer were substituted 
for a few years. The safer plan, how¬ 
ever is to plant in ground where beets 
have not been grown for a number of 
vears - R. L. WATTS. 
Gardening for Organic Matter. 
J. E. P., Wilkes-Barre, Pa .—Late last 
Summer I wrote you as to how I could 
best fill one-third of my garden with humus, 
alternating each year, or every two years. 
1 ou advise me, if I could get it ready early 
enough, to sow it to rye and Crimson clover, 
t >n account of the crops that were on it 
1 could not plow it until late in the season. 
I sowed it to rye, but so late that it only 
sprouted and came up just enough to be 
seen before the ground froze up. How 
would you advise me to handle it next 
Spring? Shall I sow Crimson clover in 
with the rye early in the Spring, and then 
at what stage of the crop should I plow 
it under? I want to handle this piece of 
ground either for one or two years in such 
way that it will be in perfect condition. 
Ans. —We understand the object is to 
stuff the soil with organic matter. Do 
not sow Crimson clover in Spring. That 
rye will probably give a fair crop. We 
would plow it under in late May and 
pack the soil hard. Then broadcast a 
heavy seeding of garden or field beans— 
some variety that makes a strong vine. 
Let them occupy the ground and in Au¬ 
gust plow them under and seed to rye 
and Crimson clover. You might use 
buckwheat and turnips or cow peas, 
but we think the beans will give you a 
good crop. 
LEGAL MATTERS 
Breach of Contract. 
A contractor agreed verbally to pay me 
20 cents a load for .300 loads of sand per 
month, and to leave the surface even. I 
agreed to allow him the exclusive use of 
the bank. He has carted away a few loads 
and then abandoned the job. What should 
I do? G. E. 
New York. 
The contract is binding, as it is in part 
executed, but we fear that the contractor, 
like so many of that stripe, is irresponsible. 
If you can find him you may recover for 
the loss of your profits on the sand. As 
he has left the job you may place the sand 
on sale. Parties should be cautious in deal¬ 
ing with contractors, as many of them lake 
every advantage, and honest ones often fail 
in their work. 
Settlement of Estate. 
My father died in 1885, leaving my step¬ 
mother, who has died since. The farm in 
Indiana was sold to pay the mortgage and 
to satisfy other debts. My step-mother ob¬ 
tained something out of it, but 1 received 
no notice for any share. b. g. 
Illinois. 
There is a strong presumption that the 
estate was settled legally. If you are able 
to look into the proceedings you may find 
that all steps were legal and proper. The 
debts, including mortgage, must be paid, and 
the dower interest of your step-mother must 
be satisfied. As you lived in another State 
there was no obligation to serve you with 
papers. Parties who feel aggrieved should 
act at once, and not sleep on their rights 
so long, as the courts will infer that you 
consent,,’to the settlement. 
Drainage Questions. 
1. Has my neighbor a right to drain his 
land so as to direct a heavy flow of water 
on to my land? 2. 1 have cleaned out a 
small brook, but the lower owner refuses to 
open his part of it. The result is that 
water is backed up ou my land by lack of 
an outlet. What can be done? r. g. 
New York. 
]. The lower owner must take the surface 
wash of the land, but no one has the right 
to collect water in drains and cast it on to 
the land of a lower owner to his damage. 
A person is not at liberty to ditch in such 
a way as to overflow his neighbor. 89 N. Y., 
498. 2. If the lower owner fails to keep 
his ditch open for the free flow of water, 
the upper owner shall serve a written de¬ 
mand on the owner to open it. After 10 
days the upper owner may apply to the fence 
viewers who have authority to inspect the 
property, take testimony and report. Their 
report when filed becomes a lien on the 
land of the lower owner. 
Catching the 
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The only known way to build modern, 
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Dairy Tubulars. But Tubular patents 
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common disk filled or other complicated 
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Concrete walks from the house 
to the outbuildings mean 
dry feet and a clean house. 
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