Concrete Pipe Line.

Progress, Volume II, Issue 5, 1 March 1907, Page 195

Concrete Pipe Line.

A concrete aqueduct recently completed at Cambridge, Mass., affords a remarkable example of the growing tendency to replace iron, brick, clay, tile, and other materials of construction in the building of waterways with concrete, and there by secure permanency. The new conduit, which is said to be the first of this kind in the United States, is 21 miles long and 6 feet in diameter, and is designed to sustain any pressure. It replaces an old iron pipe line. In this connection it may be interesting to note that the Syracuse (New York) University contemplates establishing a complete course upon cementing and concrete construction, for which a newbuilding is now being erected, to be devoted exclusively to this branch of instruction.

Your concern should be, not so much what you get, as what you do for what you get.

A farmer of long experience in the Bruce district informs the Herald that the present dry season is really the best thing the farmers could have He argues that the land has been so soured by constant wet that farming for grain and root crops was becoming an expensive matter. The present dry spell opens up the ground particularly the heavy clay lands, lets the air in, and aerates it, making it more fruitful, sweeter, and better in every way than all the manures in the world could do. A normal season following on a dry one has always seen abundant crops.