CEMENT EN MASSE
It is rarely that a farmer takes the trouble to build a concrete floor for his garage. However, concrete plays a big part m a ivell-equipped modern farm, and the method adopted by a farmer, and mentioned in a recent number of tho "Scientific American," of makin" concrete in-the masa may be of iiftercst. He had constructed a mixer which consists of ,\ barrol-liko affair mounted on an axle and provided with blades inside. To this he attaches horses and mixes the concreto by pullJng the affair along for a short distance like a roller. It would bo equally feasible to use the car or lorry as tractor.
A minor fault with somo of the electrical equipments in use is that the needle of the ammeter sometimes swings right off tho scale- and "sticks"—that is it does not return to zero. This denotes a slight defect in tho instrument, and one that strictly ought not to occur, but if it should do so, all that need be done is to give tho glass front of tho instrument a few sharp taps with tho tips of the fingers, when the noodle will swing back to zero. On no account should tho instrument be taken oft' tho switchboard.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 102, 4 May 1929, Page 27
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208CEMENT EN MASSE Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 102, 4 May 1929, Page 27
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