HOUSE AND GARDEN 
60 
January, 
1914 
A built-in-refrigerator — planned with the house — with an outside 
iceing door (thatjceeps the ice man with his muddy feet, outside) is a 
great convenience and saves many steps in the kitchen. 
You can be sure that your food is kept fresh, crisp, and free 
from odors, taint or spoilage, if you install a modern, sanitary 
McCray Refrigerator 
In Your New Residence 
For over thirty years the McCray lias been uesd in the best residences, hotels, 
clubs, restaurants and public institutions. It was chosen by the U. S. Government for 
use in the U. S. Pure Food Laboratories and other government institutions, and is recog¬ 
nized throughout the world as the Standard of Refrigerator Superiority. 
The McCray Patented System of Refrigeration keeps a current of cold, dry, pure 
air circulating throughout the food chambers—all the time. The clean, “snowy-white” 
linings of Opal Glass, Porcelain and White Enamel are sanitary and easily cleaned. 
May be equipped with special ice water cooler, rack for bottled beverages and other conveniences. 
McCray Refrigerators are built in all sizes for every requirement of Residences, Hotels, Clubs, Res¬ 
taurants, Florists, Grocers, Public Institutions, Hospitals, Markets, etc., and are Built-to-Order for any Specia l 
Purpose. 
Write for any one of the Following Catalogs: 
No. 91 —Regular Sizes for Residences. No. 69 —For Grocers. 
No. 73 —For Florists. No. 50 —For Hotels, Clubs, Institutions. 
No. A H. — Built-to-Order for Residences. No. 60 —For Meat Markets. 
McCRAY REGRIGERATOR COMPANY. 693 Lake St., Kendallville, Ind. 
New York, McCray Bldg., 7-9 W. 30th St. Chicago, 158 N. Wabash Ave 
For Branch Salesrooms in other cities see your local telephone directory 
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Dishes and Beverages of the Old South 
By MARTHA McCULLOCH-WILLIAMS 
“Southern Cooking’ has in itself an appetizing 
sound—an odor of sanctity, so to speak — and no 
one capable of conveying it to the printed page 
knows more about the subject than Mrs. Williams. 
This is more than a cook-book; it tells how to 
make Southern dishes and brews for all occasions, 
but it also holds a charming atmosphere of things 
Southern. 
Illustrated. $1.25 net; postage 10 cents. 
McBRIDE, NAST & CO., Publishers, Union Square, New York City 
cases a strip fy-inch wide is used. 
Twenty-four-gauge galvanized, expanded 
metal lath weighing not less than 3JJ 
pounds to the square yard is fastened 
over these furring strips by means of 
staples, which are driven through the lath 
and over the strips. Portland cement 
plaster is then applied to the metal lath. 
The object in using the furring strip is 
to bring the lath out from the weather¬ 
boarding, so that the plaster will form a 
perfect key and completely cover the back 
of the lath. There will be approximately 
three-eighths of an inch of plaster on the 
back of the lath. This leaves an air 
space between the plaster and the weather¬ 
boarding, which serves two purposes. 
It protects the interior of the house from 
extreme changes of temperature and 
keeps the plaster away from the wood, 
so that the contraction or expansion of 
the wood will not cause cracks in the 
plaster. 
Where this method is adopted, some 
provision must be made for extending 
the old window and door frames to cor¬ 
respond with the increased thickness of 
the wall. In some cases the plaster is 
brought over the old frames in such a 
manner that a recessed window or door 
opening is made. If the weather-board¬ 
ing is in a poor condition, it can be re¬ 
moved from the house and the furring 
strips and lath applied directly over the 
sheathing; or if the building is not 
sheathed, the furring strips can be fast¬ 
ened directly to the studding. In this lat¬ 
ter case, there need be no provision made 
for extending the window and door 
frames, as the new stucco finish will have 
this same relative position as the old 
weather-boarding. The plastering shall 
be the same as specified where sheathing 
is used. 
The specifications which follow are 
proposed for building conditions as de¬ 
scribed above. They should be suggestive 
to architect and layman as a method of 
building valuable in resisting fire and for 
use where some of the more expensive 
systems are precluded on account of 
cost or design. For the materials, the 
usual Standard Specifications apply as to 
cement; good sand, crushed stone or 
gravel screening; lime, hair or fibre, etc. 
The mortar should be thoroughly mixed 
to a uniform color; sufficient water added 
to obtain the desired consistency, the 
mixing to continue until the cement and 
lime are uniformly distributed. The hair 
or fibre should be added during the pro¬ 
cess of wet mixing. 
Methods of measurement of the pro¬ 
portions of the various ingredients, in¬ 
cluding the water, shall be used which 
will secure separate uniform measure¬ 
ments at all times. All proportions stated 
are by volumes. A barrel of cement shall 
be assumed to contain 3.8 cubic feet. 
Lime, when used, shall be measured in the 
form of putty. Hydrated lime shall be 
made into putty before being measured. 
There shall not be mixed at one time 
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