Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-12-30

sample OF something better than stone.
ITO make cement wall take yard
of clear, sharp sand, (that is twenty
seven cubic feet and six sacks OF ce-
ment. This should make a wall 16 feet
long, inches thick and 21z feet high.
Now put up some good two-inch planks
and level your lines. Put up the top one
first, then the next, and so on. Now
brace your plank from the outside 80
they will stay just eight inches apart.
then put in'your cement mortar and let
it stay two days., then take the plank
away. An eight Inch wall may seem
light, but it is plenty thick enough, as
it has nothing but the weight of the
building to hold up and 1t is always In
the dry. It is better not to use sills
never will put any more under corn
barn or any other barn.
"And now word about the founda-
| ton, that is, the foundation under the
center posts in the driveway. have
sixty-f1ve Of these posts Under my
building. I wanted stone at first, but
that would cost too much, SO after a
careful study about cement and sand
secured twelve-inch tile and filed 1t
| with the stuff and pounded 1t down
solid. Under this tile I put larger
foundation made of cement, sand and 9
few pieces of waste stone. The posts
on top of this may be red elm, cotton
wood or almost anything. Red Elm
will last lifetime. A good many peo-
pie use red cedar, but red elm Is bet.
ter because 1t does not cost as much.
1.-THE outside Of the barn should be
i boarded up perpendicularly. My posts
are 8xS, the girts are exc and the plate
is 3x8. In the driveway where the cat
tie eat the posts are 2xS. The rafterS
are 2x6 two feet apart. There are no
braces on them. The cribs are tied to-.
gether with four 2x2 placed close to-
gether These ties are put in every
eight feet They are all fastened to-
gether with 2x2x2S placed every four
feet. The upper tie Is q 2x10 twenty
six feet long. fasten the posts to-.
gether with 7x8 inch round iron rod
with bur on each end; this rod Il
buried under the cement floor. In what
/ wrote before should have said the
cost will be about cents per square
foot. AS to the roof, think the pitch
| should DO about one-third. MY roof
which has been on twenty years. II
good yet. It IL not the pitch nor the
shingles which is the fault with most
roof; It is the lack Of sufficient nails
It requires six pounds Of nails to prop.
erly nail down a thousand shingles.
believe that poor shingles costs the
people OF Iowa almost $20,000.000 q
year" FL
Experiments in deep and shallow
cultivation have been conducted by =
number of experiment stations Of the
country. The Ohio Station has conn
pleted nine year series Of such ex-
periments and reports as follows:
For deep cultivation the double,
shovel has been used, working tho
ground to a depth Of four inches or q
little more. For shallow working -
springtooth cultivator has bssn used
and the ground stirred to q depth OF an
inch and half.
"Taking each years test by Itself
with q single exception, shallow cult
walton has given q larger yieid y
grain, regardless Of weather condl-s
tons. One season, it is true, the IN
crease is Of little moment. With the
exception Of one season the yield q
stover is larger from the shallow cul-
tivation.
.Taking the average for the nine
seasons work. shallow cultivation
leads in grain by exactly four bushels
per acre, and in slower by over SO0
pounds per acre. This matter OF deep
and shallow cultivation would seem 70
be pretty well settled"
The work at the other stations has
quite generally produced similar re-
suits.