Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 278, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1911 — Farm Transit for Leveling. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Farm Transit for Leveling.

The illustration shows a ho'me made level that will answer the purpose for leveling the foundations for buildings, fixing the fall of drains or the slope or irrigated fields, etc. I have found that it works almost as and Farm. . ' - Have a tinner make a water tight tin tube BB about 4 feet long, and 2 Inches in diameter. Bore a hole through a wood block A. about 3 Inches tquare, having the hole the same else as _the tube so the pipe will fit tightly, i Pass thi pipe <■ through the hole in the block, then have an elbow soldered on each end, CC. Get two. glasses Incandescent

Transit for Striking Fann Levels, electric light bulbs. Attach these as shown at.DD, cementing each to an end of the elbow. Fasten the device to a tripod by having a screw pass through the tripod into block of wood. Have a small hole in the underside of pipe B to which a cork is fitted as shown at E. .When desired to use the level to fill the tube with water until it rises 8 or 4 Inches in the glass bulbs, Always let the water out and dry tie top work is finished. When the bulbs both show the water, by sighting through the glass fiver the surface of the water, the man at the tripod can signal an assistant to raise or lower the target Jgft as is done in the case of surveyor's transit to establish a hort* sontal. Then by deducting the height the water level is above the ground from the height of- the target from the ground the difference in elevation of the two points is easily ascertained.