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THE WORLD'S ADVANCE 



CEMENT AND CONCRETE ABOUT THE HOME 



CEMENT and concrete, although 

 extensively employed for various 

 building purposes, are not used as ex- 

 tensively as they might be around the 

 home. These materials should be more 

 frequently employed for different struc- 

 tures about the farm as well as the city 

 dwelling, since they practically cut down 

 the cost of living in that they eliminate 

 a great deal of work usually involved in 

 erecting wooden structures. Further- 

 more, when once built a concrete or 

 cement structure is serviceable for a life- 

 time. 



A few examples of the best manner 

 in which to utilize concrete and cement 

 about the house are shown in the illus- 



paper, vegetable parings or other re- 

 fuse can be destroyed by fire. The in- 

 cinerator is two feet in height and three 

 feet in diameter at its base. Openings 

 for draft have been left on opposite sides, 

 while another opening of eighteen inch 

 diameter is provided at the top. Through 

 the latter the rubbish is introduced into 

 the incinerator. The structure can serve 

 still another purpose beside that for 

 which it is intended. In summer time, 

 when the house is to be kept as cool as 

 possible, the hot water required for wash- 

 ing and other purposes can be heated 

 over the incinerator in the open. This 

 structure, together with the cement 

 clothes pole, forms a useful as well as an 



THE VIEWS APPEARING ON THE 

 OPPOSITE PAGE ARE AS FOLLOWS: 



(1) Incubator and Brooder House Made 

 of Reinforced Concrete. (2) Attractive 

 Concrete Pergola which Forms the Porch 

 of a House. (3) An Incinerator which is 

 Used for Burning Rubbish of All Kinds. 

 (4) Attractive Flower Box Made of Ce- 

 ment. (5) Flower Pot of Artistic Design. 

 (6) A Motorcycle Driveway. .(7) Sun Dial 

 Made of Cement and Cobblestones. (8) 

 Hitching Post of Concrete which has 

 been Given a Bark Finish. (9) Concrete 

 Chicken and Duck House. (10) Cement 

 Clothes Pole. (11) Cement Floor Under a 

 Grape Arbor. (12) Cement Wall Around 

 a Croquet Ground. 



while the walls 



trations '"on the facing page. One of the ornamental combination for wash day. 

 faost important of 

 these is perhaps the 

 incubator and 

 brooder house, made 

 of monolithic rein- 

 forced concrete; the 

 walls, roof and floor 

 forming one solid 

 mass. The roof is 

 reinforced by elec- 

 trically welded fab- 

 ric, consisting of 

 No. 3 wires and 

 having a mesh of six 

 inches. The roof is 

 three inches thick, 

 are four inches thick and have %-inch 

 steel reinforcing rods which run both 

 vertically and horizontally. The floor, 

 of course, is solid. The entire shelter 

 is built on the Spanish style of archi- 

 tecture and has a cement awning covered 

 with red tiling along its entire front. 



The chicken and duck house has three 

 walls and a roof, there being one open 

 side and no floor. The walls are two 

 inches thick, and the op^n side measures 

 three by three feet. This shelter is 

 sanitary, there being no cracks in which 

 vermin can collect and breed, and clean- 

 ing is easily accomplished. 



The private incinerator is a very in- 

 teresting arrangement, mainly for sani- 

 tary reasons. It helps keep the home 

 clean, since in it anything in the way of 



The cement post, 

 shown in one of the 

 views, is solid and 

 has received a sand- 

 ed finish to match 

 the house beside 

 which it stands. It 

 is seven feet high 

 and tapers gradu- 

 ally from ten inches 

 in diameter at the 

 base to eight inches 

 at the top. When 

 "'"" '"' i? near the top it nar- 

 rows abruptly to the 

 point upon which the cross arms rest. 



Other interesting features in cement 

 and concrete construction are the cement 

 floor of the grape arbor and the floor of 

 the enclosed wire cage, which is intended 

 as a breeder of blooded cats. In the 

 latter instance the cement floor prevents 

 the cats from digging under the fence 

 and escaping. 



The motorcycle driveway is a clever 

 innovation. It consists of a strip of 

 cement, eighteen inches wide, running 

 from the sidewalk in front of the house 

 back to the garage in the rear. In this 

 instance the driveway is eighty feet long. 

 To modify it into an automobile drive- 

 way, it is only necessary to lay another 

 strip of similar size a few feet away and 

 parallel to the first one. 



A cement croquet ground in the form 



