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 FIG. 32.-Portable press in operation. Allentown Consolidated School, near Milton, Santa Rosa County.

provide brick for the erection of a modern school building. They have employed G. H. Murphy, of the Glendale Brick Works, Glendale, to make for them 400,000 brick. They plan to use half of this brick in the construction of the building and sell the remaining half to defray the expenses of manufacture. More than the 200,000 allotment to be sold had been engaged by local citizens at the time the scheme was put into operation. Most of the work necessary in the manufacture of the brick is being donated by residents of the community.
 Mr. Murphy has opened up a clay-pit about one-half mile from the site of the school building. He is using a portable press and cutting machine which is drawn by a tractor. The tractor is also used to furnish the power when the press is in operation.
 Two clays are dug by scrapers and molded immediately in the press. The green brick are stacked out in the open to dry with no protection whatever from rain, wind or sunshine and when dry are burned in temporary scove kilns of 50,000 capacity. Drying is completed in three days.
 Those interested in this enterprise are exceedingly fortunate in having a clay close at hand which can stand such rapid, crude and un-