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H R T I C U L T IT E E 



August 29, 1914 



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The portion of our houses shown by the dark is entirely self-sustaining and entirely independent 



of the side posts for its support 



Vital Pomte ie Safe Framins 





WHEN we first began building the big, wide iron 

 frame houses many of the growers felt that 

 in proportion as tiie house was made wider 

 that the eaves and posts should be made heavier to 

 stand the "side thrust" that would come from the 

 weight of all that big roof. On first thought it did 

 look so. But we are using the same sized angle iron 

 eave plates on our 80 foot houses as we first did on 

 our 40 footers. It is a happy happening that green- 

 house engineering mathematics proved that it could 

 be so. To have increased the eave shade would have 

 been a serious objection to wide houses. 

 The truth of the matter Is — one of our houses would 

 stand rigid and entirely self-sustaining if that part 

 of the house between, and including the columns. 

 were standing entirely by itself as shown by dark 

 colored portion of above section. 

 Framed as we frame and mathematically truss them, 

 there is only a direct doun pressure on the columns, 

 so far as the weight of the frame is concerned. 



That portion of the house on either side of the col- 

 umns as shown in light in the above section, is sim- 

 ply a leanto. 



The side posts you can now see, support only a por- 

 tion of the weight of the roof from the columns to 

 the eave. 



The posts do, however, have an important part to do 

 in taking a share of the strain in case of high wind 

 pressures. So you see it's one thing to think a con- 

 struction "looks good," but it's quite another to know 

 it's good as it looks before it's built. Our engineering 

 experts can't tell by looking at a construction design 

 whether it will stand the snows and blows. But 

 after hours and days figuring, they can tell to a cer- 

 tainty. 



If you want a house that's surely safe and sure, then 

 let's get together and talk it over. 



Say when and w-here and we'll be there. 



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