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wall proper was started, being twelve inches thick — ^that was built 

 of the same mixture and in the same manner to the required 

 height, setting our windows and door frames as we advanced. 

 In the walls we built all pipe connections for our intake and 

 waste water as all water used is gravity. The whole house has 

 settled six and one-half inches and settled all together. 



Now the problem of a floor on this bog was next to be tackled. 

 We leveled the ground off fairly well and put a coating of rail- 

 road cinders to the thickness of ten inches, using the hose and 

 two men tamping all the time so when the ten inches of cinders 

 were all in we had a fairly hard surface. Then we laid all 

 around the walls a row of three inch tile drain pipe connecting 

 with a pipe already built in the wall. We then laid our waste 

 pipes in the cinders and over the entire surface of the floor we 

 laid ten inches apart 2-inch old gas pipe that we got for $1.50 

 per hundred from Brother Israel who had picked them up as old 

 iron. Then we put on concrete of the same mixture as the walls 

 to the thickness of four inches. On top of this we put a 2-inch 

 layer of clean, sharp sand, three parts to one of concrete, this 

 finished our floor and not a sign of a crack is visible because it 

 is all bound together and when one part settles the wdiole surface 

 must go down together. 



Now, to utilize this floor space to the best advantage we de- 

 cided to construct our troughs and batteries across the narrow 

 way of the building. On each end we constructed our frames for 

 a Clark Williamson box for our trout. These we made double, 

 each pocket 10x15x15 deep, fourteen compartments to each side, 

 sixteen trays to each compartment, making a total for the two 

 boxes of eight hundred and ninety-six trays. The walls we made 

 three inches and the cross sections two inches. It took about 

 G80 feet of lumber at $14.00 M, to make the frame for this box. 

 Of course, the sides and bottom can all be used over again, but 

 the wood nsed in the inner walls must be cut out and is entire 

 waste. We used twenty-two sacks of cement, and of course three 

 times as much sand — abont four loads, costing $1.00 per load. 



Four feet from this box we constructed our picking trough 

 made to hold the trays as they were taken out and distributed. 

 This picking trough I built with a four inch space for the dead 

 eggs and a pocket on the end to receive them, as I intend to use 



