Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 180, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1916 — MUD HOUSES FOR ENGLISH [ARTICLE]

MUD HOUSES FOR ENGLISH

Experiments Now Being Made on Building Material by London College. London.—The possibility of using mud as a building material, and so solving the urgent problem of providing cheap country cottages In the rural districts and housing accommodation in the areas where there has been a sudden influx of war workers is being made the subject of an interesting experiment by the new household and social science department' of King’s College ioi Women, University of London. Six mysterious-looking walls have Just been erected in the grounds at Camden Hill, each wall being composed of a different mixture of mud, with a view to testing which proves most suitable to the English climate. In each case the earth has been subjected to a different process of preparation. In one case waterglass has been added, in another soft soap, and to the earth and soft soap in another case lime has been added. A“grouting” of cement has been poured over the mud wall in yet another case, and there is one wall made of earth alone,