Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1852-04-08

mixing, aud stone aud briok-layinp
The mode OF mixing comes next 10 be
considered. And here | effected yer,
great saving towards the last as computed
with the first. Instead uf, as is usual. work
ing over the material. as for example, Ia
working norta-bed FIRST throwing INTO the
bed the required quantity Of line ! wet or
slack II perfectly and rendered il bout as
thick as cream, or barely thick enough TO
work well on The shovel. make Il thus
Tim because Il works easier, aud becomes
more completely Incorporated with the sand
aud stones, then throw IN the sand wheeling
% on plank across the bed. aud dumpinq
It here and there over the bed, rs toe case
requires, still adding water, and one hand
900 HE bed sirs 1t with the hoe or shovel, as
+ fast As SIX Other hands heel it in Tow
ards the last the bed may become too sliT
10 work IN all this sand well ia which case
| SIMPLY spread IL GA top, then began al
one corner aud shoteled II over. throwing
Il back INTO that corner, thus leuvng a
trench between that shoyeIed aud uushovei-
ed which trench kept filed with water.
and taking shoyelful after shoyelul threw II
INTO this trench, aud thus Incorporated The
I lime thoroughly with the mass. A few min
uies only are required To woik a bed III
this way, and shovel IT back 60 one corner.
! now began with my coarse gravel, aud
dumped barrow full INTO the vacant cor
ner, and threw on two or three shavellus
Of this lime aud sand lhen another barrow
of coarse rub0Ie stones, aud another two or
three shoyeiuls OF lime and sand. hcapiug
up The mass INTO the vacant corner until
g rfr
{ thickness, when ay down Board Tor the
barrow 10 pass up on top of the pile, and
dumping It down as side, the barroWiul IS
OF course we'd spread, - that few shu,el-
Ius ol inle and sand are evenly distributed
through the mass aud proceed thus until
The lime and sand are all worked up. The
bed Is nov ready for re-workng aud shov-
eimg 90 the boxes. But observe, q NOW
consists Of layer Of those coafse rubble
stone aud coarse gravel, aud another layer
OF cue sand aud hne, whereas, IL requires
thar the two be completely worked iogeth-
en- | then begin TO worN the bed dmgon-
ally across these layers, adding water, and
shoyeling II over once aud perhaps twice,
which mixes " yell, shoyeiing % lnto the
barrow mixes i again, shorclmg It into the
wall, or dumping u, mikes It thlrd time, So
that 10y moving the material to lis place IT
becomes m,Ned. usually had one baud
IA the bed from five 80 seven wheclers. -
'rhsi Is, these ~heeiers would bring IA a
barrow Of lime, ano,her with pa, would
wet that lime as fist as IL came ~, auG tins
bed-hand would keep the hoe or shovel at
work. So as 10 NIX It about Us fast as II
came in A. soon as The wheeler had
d. ~
wheel sand one hand keeping ihe hoe 90
ln1 fast the other four or I'VE hands
wheeled. BY The tme the sand was all
fairly in, one hand, still az the walcf-pail.
filled that trench already described, while
che other hands turned Il over aud snoyeled
II back into one corner, which they would
do iu from three 10 i've minutes These
same hands kept the lime aud sand wet,
aud shnYeei II into the barroWs as fast as
those i've or six hands wheeled n. This
same bed-h1nd nuw shoVeled It over once,
and sno,eed uto the barrow as last as tNo
or three hands could wheel IT, filling one
barrow while the other was passing to be
unloaGcd. The more the compound Is
,hoye!ed over The better II should be wei!
mixed, hut one hand will do a great deal
beside filing the burrows.
After the gronud story Is up | recon-
mend the tackle, and verify believe that ten
tunes It's cost can be saved even IN putting
up two story house aud that tackle be-
comes an GRAND boy, so that # you want
anything that Is below, tins bedhand who
should have a boy at command also helping
him to shovel, can send up what you want,
and you send down what Is wanted below.
And then this tackle will always be Of SER
vice about the house, for every house Ought
"a have a contrIvsuce for lii,IAg trunks, fur
allure, &c, even after the house is built
! should think this tackle saved me half Of
my labor. so placed II as thai the tub de-
seconded INTO one corner of the bed. In
making up the bed always began to shoy-
81 Che lime and sand into the corner where
bed the other way, when putting IN The
coarse gravel, | Left that corner vacant, and
began Then TO shovel INTO the tub Shoyel-
I'M into the tub was one mixing, empUng
It above was another mixing shoveing into
the barrow war another. aud from the bar
row into the wall another, aud this was all
the mixing Il had. Yet / confess that show
cling over once, before shoveling into the
tub, would DC better, because It distributes
the lime aud sand more evenly. Having
thus described the process OF getting the
stuff ready for the boxes, our next aruclc
viii pertain 10 tile structure of the boxes
etc