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Concrete Construction for the Home and the Farm - Atlas Portland Cement Company
Atlas Portland Cement Company
Concrete Construction for the Home and the Farm
Published by Good Press, 2022
EAN 4066338078582
Table of Contents
INDEX
Concrete in the Country
What is Concrete
?
Materials
Portland Cement
Sand
Stone or Gravel
Pure Water Necessary in Mixing
Proportioning the Mixture
Natural Mixture of Bank Sand and Gravel
Tools
Wheelbarrow Runs
How to Mix Concrete
The Hand Mixing Method
Mixing Natural Mixture of Bank Sand and Gravel
Number of Men
How to Determine Quantities of Materials Needed
Forms for Concrete
How to Place Concrete
Directions for Placing
The Necessary Tools
Protection of Concrete after Placing
Points to Remember
Reinforcement
Kinds of Reinforcement
Concrete Sidewalks and Floors
Lasting Qualities
Settlement Cracks
Upheaval by Frost
Upheaval by Tree Roots
Contraction Cracks
Scaling or Crumbling of the Surface
Specifications
Drainage Foundation
Selection of Materials
Proportions
Consistency of Concrete
Placing
A Foundation Gutter and Walk
Repairs to Farm Buildings
Why Concrete Should be Used to Repair Farm Buildings
Replacing an Entire Foundation with Concrete
Foundations of concrete are indestructible.
A Concrete Entrance Floor
Farm Buildings Should be Connected by a Concrete Driveway
Alleyways Between Buildings
Carriage Washing Floors
Feeding Floors and Barnyard Pavements
Disadvantages of Wooden Floors
Advantages of Concrete
How to Build Feeding Floors
Drainage Foundation
Grading the Floor
Placing the Concrete
Manure Pits and Cisterns
How to Build
The Value of Manure Pits
Concrete Barnyards
Concrete Floors Increase Profits
Construction
Feeding Troughs, Racks and Mangers
Troughs for Horses, Cattle, and Sheep
Feeding Troughs for Hogs
A Fire-protected Feed Cooker
Hog Wallows—Automatic Dipping Tanks
A Corn Crib Floor of Concrete
Concrete Barn Floors
The Advantages of Concrete Floors
Concrete in the Cow Barn
How to Build Dairy Barn Floors
The Alleyway
The Stall Floor
The Manger
The Feedway
Horse Barn Floors
Concrete Mangers
Farmers Build Barn Approaches of Concrete
A Concrete Barn Foundation
Wind Walls and Their Importance
Concrete and the Silo
Sanitary Water Supply
How to Protect Wells
Underground Cisterns and Cistern Platforms
Making Spring Water Sanitary
New Style Cistern Built on Top of Ground
Watering Troughs and Tanks
Watering Tank for Horses and Cattle
Watering Troughs for Hogs
Dipping Vats and Tanks
The Construction of a Concrete Milk Vat
Small Farm Buildings
Milk Houses
Concrete Cellar Steps and Hatchway
Root Cellars of Concrete
Poultry Houses
Poultry Watering Troughs
Duck Ponds
Retaining Wall and Steps
Concrete Chimney Caps
Concrete Makes an Excellent Porch Floor
Hot-Beds and Cold-Frames
Tree Repair
Rollers of Concrete
Hay Caps and Tarpaulin Weights
Trash Burner or Garbage Receiver
Concrete Posts
Corner Stones and Survey Monuments
Drain Tile Outlet Walls
Spraying Tanks
Culverts are Permanent When Made of Concrete
Septic Tanks
Window Hatches
An Outdoor Swimming Pool
INDEX
Table of Contents
Special Index to Directions
General Index
Concrete in the Country
Table of Contents
How the American Farmer is Solving
His Conservation Problem
Conservation
is no new problem—it is as old as life itself. It becomes a highly important question to the person or the nation only when the resources scarcely supply the demands. Such is the situation in the United States to-day. In the early days the removal of the forests was necessary that much grain might be grown. The young Nation had to have money, and as farming was the only means at hand to furnish it, the natural fertility of the fields was reduced. But the money thus supplied was merely a long-time loan on the Bank of Natural Resources. To-day the vanishing forests and the failing fertility of the fields bear witness that the loan is now due. Hence the problem of conservation. Strange as it may seem, the farmer is using one material not only to replace lumber but also, in a way, to restore the fertility of his fields—that material is concrete.
The national and state governments and the railroads were the first to make extensive use of concrete. Not only did the beauty and mystery of this new construction naturally appeal to the farmer, but he concluded that the railroads did not use it, in preference to wood, steel and stone, merely to decorate the landscape. He knew too much about railroads. So strongly did the railroads’ idea of economy (the dollar argument) appeal to him that the farmer of the West is now building practically everything about the farm of concrete. At first, and quite naturally, land-owners in the rock and gravel regions began using this new form of construction; but, since its cheapness in first cost and value in lasting qualities have become generally known, a wave of enthusiasm for farm structures of concrete has swept the entire country. A gravel pit is now more valuable than many a gold mine.
With little help other than looking and listening, the farmer grasped the idea of a concrete walk, and being a natural inventor and jack-of-all-trades, improved on the method by adding a small curb next to his flower bed to keep the dirt from washing on the white walk. This walk was a blessing to the boy—all the time formerly given to scrubbing and weeding the old brick walk could now be devoted to fishing. The yard walk was extended to the barns and outlying buildings. Wading through seas of mud and resulting tracked-up kitchen floors became a thing of the past. By simply increasing the width of the walk, a cellar floor was provided and the farmer had a dry cellar. This was so clean and so odorless that he considered such a floor fit for that most immaculate of all places—the milk house. Concrete cellar hatchway and steps, safe under the heaviest barrel of vinegar, and water-tight, were made in a manner similar to walks.
Brick work had long been laid up in a mixture of Portland cement and sand. As this kept the water out, the farmer reasoned that it would keep the water in, and he started to build cistern floors, walls and cover of Portland cement concrete at one-third to one-half the cost of the old brick cistern.
After a little more observation, he quit digging deep cistern-pits, with the necessary annoyance of thawing out frozen pumps and carrying water—he built a concrete cistern on top of the ground and made the pumping and carrying of the water a mere matter of turning a faucet in the kitchen and the bath room.
Several years ago corn was so cheap that in some sections it was burned for fuel instead of coal. No consideration was then given to the bushels wasted in muddy feed lots. If the mud became too deep, the feeding was transferred to the blue grass pasture. To be sure, as the sod wore out, the feeding-place had to be changed; but somebody had advanced the idea that this particular method of feeding was good for the soil. Many farmers had tried wooden feeding floors and had found them a paying proposition as far as the saving of feed was concerned, in the general health of the animal, and in the shortened time of fattening. But two great drawbacks were the rats that infested them and the constant need of repairs. In concrete the thoughtful farmer saw the possibilities of an ideal floor—an easily cleaned, rat-proof, disease-proof surface upon which his hogs, sheep, cattle and poultry might consume the feed even to the smallest particle.
So satisfactory did the feeding floor prove that the same treatment suggested itself as a remedy for the fly-breeding, muddy holes in the earthen floors and the rat-infested wooden floors of the barns. But the careful horseman held up a bit: he was afraid that stamping at the