432 Missouri Agricultural Beport. 



A porch 14x20 feet, 7 feet from the ground, in one solid piece, 

 was built to it with a cellar underneath. The concrete in the porch 

 was 1 cement, 3 sand and 3 gravel, reinforced with sliding door- 

 track bars, one every 6 inches. It was finished with a 1 to 2 mortar. 

 There are no cracks and it does not leak. 



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Figure 22. Dairy barn floor, Fred North. 



Fig. No. 22 is end elevation of a floor to a dairy barn built in 

 1909. Both barn and floor are of concrete. This floor is made with 

 a mixture of 1 part cement, 3 parts sand and 5 parts of fine creek 

 gravel, finished and troweled off with a 1 to 2 mortar. 



FRED NORTH, 



Neosho, Mo. 



HEN HOUSE AND CORN CRIB FLOOR. 



I have constructed a corncrib floor and a hen house of concrete. 

 I find the corncrib floor too damp. 



The hen house is 12x20 feet with a flat roof 5 inches thick. My 

 proportion of concrete was 1 cement to 7 chats. Field rock was 

 used in the walls to fill up and cheapen the work. The roof was 

 reinforced with wagon tires and gas pipe spaced about 1 foot one 

 way and 3 feet the other. The roof leaked like a sieve until it was 

 washed with pure cement. 



H. G. RICHARDSON, 



Neosho, Mo. 



EIGHTY RODS OP FENCE. 



Having a lot of loose boulders, or field rock, on my farm, I used 

 some of them to build a fence, now completed, 80 rods in length. In- 

 stead of mixing sand with the cement, I used our mine refuse, called 



