Concrete Widely ! Used on Farms ol United States Advantages of Permanent Type of Construction Impress American Farmer. ^ "Tlie use of Portland cement In the United States has had a very spec tacular growth, comparable to that of the automobile, tractor and petroleum industries. The first Portland cement •*»«ne in this country was manufac t ured by a Mr. Saylor of Coplay, Pa., in 1875, and from this small beginning lias grown to the enormous produc tion of over 315.00,000 barrels' per ■ year,” says I. W. Dickerson, agricul tural engineering editor, “The Farm er,” St. Paul. "The use of concrete on the farm has been even more recent and rapid than in the general building industry. 1 can remember distinctly my own first Attempt with concrete, while home on my vacation from the uni versity, I decided to take out several feet of the loose rock walls of our open wells and to lay them up again in cement mortar, plaster the outside and smooth ofT the top, and then to make and lay on heavy concrete slab covers. * "These all went well, even though my sand and coarse aggregate were hauled out of our own creek bed and neither was of good quality. These wells and tops are still doing business' on the old farm, and are just as good: or better than the day they were1 made. "My next attempt, a long narrow water trough, came to grief because I did not know- enough to oil or wet my forms thoroughly before 'pouring the concrete, wilh the result that the '..ater they absorbed from the con Crete weakened it materially and the swelling of the inner form cracked the trough at the corners. Concrete on the Farm. "Similar early failures, because of ignorance or refusal to follow direc tions, on the part of farmers, made J the adoption of concrete for farm use , rather slow at first. "But the farmer is gradually being educated to the pruper handling and care of concrete and is thoroughly] sold as to its value as a building material. Scarcely a farm can now lie found where some use has not been made of concrete, such as foundation vails and floors for residences, barns and other farm buildings, monolithic aud concrete block walls, sthcco finish for buildings, walks and steps, roads I and driveways, silos, water storage! and stock tanks, vegetable and root, storage houses, feeding floors, retain ; log walls, drainage tile and hundreds of oyier uses. This widespread adop tion of concrete construction has taken place because of the many ad 1 \antages which concrete offers as a building material. Permanent, Inexpensive, "First of all is its permanence Good concrete construction, under all ordinary conditions, is as solid and permanent as the mother rock, andi will be stronger a hundred years from now than it is when built. The farm er can build with a reasonable cer lainty that this part of his bulling will be giving service to his posterity for generations. "Combined with this is a negligible upkeep cost. Most people rather ad mire the slight aging eITcffct which the concrete^ assumes after exposure to the weather. This combination of rea snnably low first cost, extremely long life and no upkeep cost, makes for a very low yearly cost which amounts to practically nothing more than in terest on the first cost. "Then, too. good concrete Is prac tically fireproof. A good concrete building with proper window and roof protection will emerge almost un damaged from any ordinary outside exposure and with its contents safe. Thus the house would not catch from the barn fire and vice versa. Instances liave occurred where a large barn burned next to a good concrete or masonry silo without seriously damag ing the silo or the food stored In it. A house with concrete basement and concrete floor overhead could burn out the whole basement without seriously damaging the house above, and a dairy barn with a similar construction might have the whole upper part burned off without Injuring the dairy or breeding stock housed below. Even a good heavy coating of stucco on metal lath with an ah- space back of it adds materially to the resistance of ' a building to the spread of fire. Build for Pprntanence Now. "These factors of permanence and fire resistance are of the utmost im portance and should bp given more at tention in building than they ordinar ily receive. Time was when the Amer ican farmer was Innre or less of a transient, squatting on a virgin farm, depleting its fertility until it would no longer produce crops. Then he moved on to a new location to repeat again the same cycle of operations. Under such conditions ho was not much in terested In permanent buildings and built of the cheapest and mose access ihle materials. Today conditions are radically different. Modern Lace Created and Developed l»y Italians While glancing at the window draperies In your homo you probably have often wondered what Is lace? One eminent writer says that lace Is "openwork made with needle, boh bin, or by knitting, knotting, tatting or crocheting Whether it Is done by hand or machine makes no differ ence, except that the term "real lace" is reserved for tha hand made laces. The origin of lace Is hard to de termine. Hair and breast nets are In existence today that were found preserved in the graves of ancient Egypt since more than 1,000 years before the times of Itameses the Great, who was pharaoh in tho thir teenth century B. C. There are also plain and fanry nets of the Greek Itoman-KKyptiun type, known as i "optic, which date from the third to 'the seventh centuries, A. L>. There are nlso ancient nets made la America, some of them said to have been from the loom preserved In Peruvian graves since the time of Christopher Columbus and even be fore. But the lace as we know It today, the creation and development la said to have been In Italy. The word Is derived from the Gatin laoueua, meaning loop ur nooae. I Making Two Rooms of One Here’s a room that revives fond memories of bygone days on aeeount of Its homey atmosphere, Its colo n'll I 'eeling, its uuaintness. Because of the demand for those pretty and useful things for the home, that spell comfort and refinement, early American furniture styles are again popular and in \ogue. The illustration shows the same room, living room or library pictured above, that has been quickly changed Into a delightful dining room by merely employing the twofold uses concealed within furniture. Two eitra leaves stored away in the library table permit Its use a« a dining table to accommodate eight |>er*nns Thu* are after-theater lunch parties, week-end guests or suddenly announced visitors easily entertained. * Even Furniture Is Electrified W ir«“7-6 .... $32.50 6x9 . . , . $57.50 8-3x10-6 .... $85.00 9x12 ..'... $92.50 9x15 ..$127.50 11-3x12 . . . $127.50 11-3x15 .... $160.00 T Pollock Huston Co. Philadelphia nHIS is not a picture of things as they MIGHT RE, but of things as THEY ARE. HOME ideals in ideal surroundings—no overcrowding—room to LIVE and MOVE and PLAY. Note the broad streets, trees and curving drives, the open places and the far-off view. Beautiful homes are being constructed in the NEW UNIT of HAPPY HOLLOW—west side'of the boulevard, just north of the club. There is no better place to build a HOME. Lots as low in price as $1,500.00, on terms of payment that will surprise you. Why not act now? GEORGE & COMPANY Realtor City National Bank Building Omaha, Nebraska