ARID AGRICULTURE. 



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ADOBE 

 HOUSE 



LOG HOUSES 



not drain down the sides and wash away the 

 walls. 



Clay soils may often be found which will 

 mix with straw, brush, gravel or other materials 

 and can be used to construct a wall by pouring 

 muck into molds. The mold may be simply a 

 plank placed on each side, the mixed muck poured 

 and pounded in between, and the planks raised 

 as the wall is builded. The same kind of roof 

 as that used for sod houses should be put on. 

 Houses built in this way are warm and in our 

 dry climate last for many years. A good tight 

 roof can be made by laying timber across the 

 walls and bending boards over them to make a 

 curved roof, which need not be steep. Over 

 these boards place a tough fibrous building pa- 

 per or tar paper and then lay on four to six 

 inches of soil. 



Where timber is available or if one can reach 

 the Timber Reserve and use the dead trees, log 

 buildings can be constructed with little money 

 outlay. Buildings of logs are very comfortable 

 if properly made and chinked. Where sawed 

 timbers can be obtained they make one of the 

 easiest constructed and best house walls. We do 

 not need to suggest methods of building with 

 lumber, for where lumber can be obtained, every 

 man will be able to work out his own building 

 problem. 



