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the construction men behind they are pouring fresh concrete for a sidewalk here in Washington DC and because of agricultural research in the cost less to do it cost less to maintain it and it will help the farmer now how does pouring fresh concrete for a city sidewalk at the man on the fan well here's how an agricultural product linseed oil which comes from flax is being used here to cure the concrete US Department of Agriculture scientists are always looking for a new ways to use Agricole products experiments by sciences of the northern utilization research and development laboratory and Illinois cooperating with the national flaxseed process's Association showed up concrete treated with linseed oil emotions have greater strength than concrete killed by other methods forms a barrier and slows down to a minimum in order to form a strong concrete surface that will resist chipping and flaking in addition the limits productive concrete and from trees for damage other advantages of whimsy emotions are but they contain no credible silence or wasn't and have no ranchers traveled painting can take place almost immediately after the concrete has been poured and cumbersome loads of solid materials too showing eliminated another advantage is in the inexpensive transportation and handling of linseed oil compositions no supplier of a Lindsay oil can be mixed with water of the construction site so you see here a practical application of agricultural research utilizing a farm commodity and developing an entirely new use for it in the benefits industry it benefits you and me in bed aside work streets and highways and it benefits taxpayers by finding a new use and market for their crop through agricultural researched this is Vince Marc Lee in Washington
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