Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1910 — Concrete Nests For Hens. [ARTICLE]

Concrete Nests For Hens.

The annual cement show, at the Coliseum, contains many notable examples of the progress made in the use of Portland cement and its versatility as a material of construction. Cement sidewalks are universally known and houses either faced with oement or built throughout of this material, including floors, staircases and partitions, are no longer considered remarkable. *•' The use of cement in the construction of so unusual an article hs hen’s nests, however, Is considered novel, if not radical, and a concrete hen’s nest will be one of the exhibits at the show. Other exhibits will be cement blackboards, which threaten to drive out the old-time slate article out of the schoolhouse; cement garbage boxes, which are both fire and vermin proof and which cannot decay or become unsanitary and molded fountains of cement, showing that the material has unlimited artistic possibilities, as well as purely practical ones already described.—Chicago Record Herald.