Asphalt Or Coal Tar Walks

f lit HfieMpu Jgusu LiU8t year we gave an account of the niethod of making garden walks of coal tar and s:ind. In towus in the interior of New York State, a soinewhat similar prooess is employed in making street ivalUs, which i gentleman residiug thero ili!c!Ítos to the American Agriculturisl : " When lamber could be bought at a fair price, plank-vralks were about the host that oould be mude for the etreets of country villages. Quickly built, they were álso pleasant to tho feet. But they did not prove durable, and are now Uio expenaive. Good gravel ia not to be had now in sufficient quantity for the public demand, aüd, as corartonly ueed, oven gravel walks wear out. Some one bas suggested tho use of coal gas tar and water-linie, mixed with gravel and aand, tf fonn a concrete bed for walks. The ftxperiment has uow beeu in oourse of i i for flc.'veral years, and thus far works ruil. The ((rouad is escavated fof the walk o the depth of three and-a-half inches, nd as wide as the path is desired.-Hemlock scantling, two inches by tour, aro thon laid down on each side ot the ?rack, and fastoned by stakea driven in-.1 the ground, which are sawed off flush svilh the surfiice of the scantling. In ■vulk between, a layer two inches thick of eourse gravel or amall stonea is the stones to tra no larger than frgd Ttiis layer is now saturated lixturt; of gas tar and water lime. Vhile tuis is yet nioist, a layer of fine kvel twoinohea thick is spread over it, ■ ;inl having boen previously sifted. . ui, is satur;tted with tar and waI un) A final cuat of saud is uow 35re il óver lli s, raising the surface au I .._ l.l L J4 - L i K.i ojinntlirirvii on eaoh side. The walk is now to be ruada compaut and hard liy passing a iiuavy roller over ifc until it settles to a level with the scantlings. It is desira')k- tbat the walk be mudo a littlo higbef in the center thao at the sides, so as !o shed water effectually. Aí'ter a few days, il ill be hard enough to use. The co.-t of such a valk is from 40 to 60 cent a Hquure yard, F.ccording to the price of raaterials ín different looalities. Walks of this deseription have been in use at Elmira in this State, for several Vüiirs, at Syracuse, Palmyra, VVaterloo, 'and Lyons, for three and five years, and in all case they prove durable, cheaper than stoiie fiagging, and pleasanter to lo the fcet. lt was predicted at first that froAt would heave and break them up. hut this does not prove to be the f;iet. The only practical objectiüu wc h:ive heird ofis, that ocuasionally in hul -M'alhor they emit the odor of gas lur, wiiieli 8 offensive to soine persons."