Hammond Times, Volume 5, Number 306, Hammond, Lake County, 16 June 1911 — Page 11

Friday, Juno 10, 1911.

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CONCRETE FEEDING FLOORS

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They Make Great Saving in Feed, Time and Labor and Are Economical From Every Point of View.

The saving principle of feeding floors has long been recognized by successful breeders and feeders of live stock. The trouble, heretofore, has been to obtain an entirely satisfactory material for floor construction. Wooden floors kept the feed out of the mud and dust and not only saved every article of grain, but also pre "vented wheezing coughs and otherwise temporarily improved the health of the animal. However, in a short time, the best wooden floors rotted out and became infected with disease germs. Often floors had to be burned to free the farm of hog cholera. Advantage of Concrete. In concrete the farmer and ranchman have found an ideal floor material. Such floors not only , effect a saving in feed, a shortening in the time of fattening and a decrease in labor, but also afford perfect protection to the health of the animal. Concrete floors do not soak up water and therefore cannot become infected with dis

ease germs. Their s-urfaces can be easily cleaned and thoroughly disinfected with oils and dips. Careful tests have shown that concrete floors, through the saving of grain and manure alone, pay for themselves in the short period of one year. llo to Ituild ('eediug Floors. Feeding floors are merely several sidewalks laid side by side, and the same general rules of construction apply to them. Choose a site in the lot where the ground is slightly sloping well drained and wind-protected, and convenient to feed and water. Excavate to a depth of 12 inches for the drainage foundation, and around the outside edges of the entire floor dig a trench 12 Inches wide and 18 inches deep. This trench, filled with concrete, prevents hog wallows from undermining the floor and keeps the rats from nesting under it. Fill all of this space (except the trench to the natural ground level with well tamped coarse gravel, crushed rock, tile culls or brickbats. This fill forms

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Indiana Harbor lias need of many more Houses and Flat Buildings. The need is increaming respite the very active building this season. Houses or Flat Buildings sell readily and can be rented immediately. A great opportunity is presented to the investor desiring to build for the purpose of selling or renting. BUSINESS AND RESIDENCE LOTS ACRES FOR SUBDIVISIONS

the drainage foundation as for sidewalks. tirade the Floor. The floor must be graded or sloped so that water will not collect on it in the winter and so that the manure washings may be caught by the gutters and run to the water-tight concrete manure pit. (To shape the gutter, make a mold or templet by rounding the corners on the flat side of a 6-foot length of 4 by 6-inch timber.) A gentle slope, toward the lower corner, of V to i,i -inch of an inch for each foot of length or width is sufficient. This is secured by the use of a heavy grade stake at each corner of the floor, a straight-edge or a grade line, and a spirit level. It is an advantage to have a feeding floor its" full thickness above ground. Make light floors 4 inches and floors subject to heavy loads 6 inches thick. For the forms use 2-lnch lumber of a width equal to the floor thickness. Begin on a low side of the floor. Mark the grade height of each corner stake and set the forms to a grade cord stretched from stake to stake. 1'se only good materials and mix th.e concrete 1 part Portland cement to 2 parts sand to 5 parts screened gravel or crushed rock (or 1 part Portland cement to 5 parts bank-un gravel.

Measure the materials exactly; count

1 sack of cement equal to cubic foot. IMaeiug the Concrrte.

Always begin placing the concrete on the low side of the floor, so that

rain from sudden showers will not run from the hard onto the newly placed concrete. Fill the trench and the slab section of the forms with concrete. Bring the surface to grade by drawing

over it a straight edge with its ends on the opposite forms or with one end on form and the other on the finished concrete. Four inches in from the edge, on each of the low sides, temporarily inbed the rounded 4 by 6-lnch gutter mold and tamp it down until its square top is even with the surface of the slab section of the floor. Remove the mold and finish the surface with a wooden float. The day after the concrete In each section U placed, carefully throw on a covering of hay or straw, and keep it thoroughly wet for a week. Connect the gutters with the manure pit by means of a trough, another gutter, or by large drain tile laid underground. If concrete feeding troughs and rack are to be built at some future time, make the necessary mortises by temporarily imbedding beveled blocks or wooden frames in the s,oft concrete. , Below is given an Itemized bill of materials necessary for a 6-inch floor 24 by 36 feet, amply large to accommodate 50 hogs. . - Material Required. Crushed rock or screened gravel, 20 cubic yards, at $1.10 $ 22.00 Pand, 10 cubic yards, at $1 10.00 Portland cement, 28 barrels at $2.50 70.00

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Total $102.00 Mixing the concrete by hand, 5 men can usually finish this floor in two days. Prices of materials vary greatly in different localities. The figures given above are safe; but, before deciding as to what your own floor will cost you, consult local dealers. Depending upon price of labor and materials and the thickness of the concrete, the floor will cost 6 "to 12 cents for each square foot of surface.

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Clears away ail! donnltott There was trouble at the factory. The superintendent sat frowning over the mass of correspondence on his desk. He had' s just received an inquiry over the private branch telephone exchance from the head of a department, saying that a certain order was not plain. The superintendent turned to his desk-telephone, got long distance connection with the selling house, and obtained definite instructions.

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(Special to The Times.) Indiana Harbor, Ind.. .June 15. A party, composed of C. A. Wcstberg, C. E. Fowler and Mc. Mel Jonald, a friend of Mr. Fowltr's, went out in Matt Sternberg's launch last Friday to view the Improvements that are being put in by the Inland Steel company and to inspect the work that is being done by the government in 'the matter of dredging the harbor. The day being so extremely hot. the party did not make a thorough an inspection as they had intended, but they stayed out long enough to noto the general progress that is being made. There are two dredges employed by the government, one being stationed In the inner harbor between the bridges and the outer harbor and the other in the outer harbor. The former is a sand-sucker device and is depositing the sand back of the breakdwater on the Inland side. In the outer harbor there is a bucket dredge, which is removing the bar that has always been the dread of marines who have made Indiana Harbor in the past. It Is proposed to do a particular

ly good job here, dredging so deep and so wide a channel that here will be no danger of the bar forming again for at least two years. When the breakwaters that are planned by the government are put in the sand will cease to shift as has been the case heretofore, but the prospects for the additional breakwaters are not for the immediate future. The work on the extension of the boiler room at the Inland Is progressing finally, as is also the work on the new blast furnace. The foundations, vhlch are of concrete, are rapidly nearing completion, and the work of tilling In the lake at the mill is making rapid strides.

REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS

EAST CHICAGO. Lot 13, blk 3, KE 'i 32-37-9, Lewis Iouglas to Bartholomae J. Uettlg 2.200

Part NW XE i SW M 28-37-9, Chgo Co. to Ind Itar Belt It. R. Co $4,491 Lot 23, blk 14, SW '4 2S-37-9, Adelheld Mozer to Ceeke Zsofia 1,000 INDIANA HARBOR. , Lot 21, blk 56, Edith K. Weddle to Rosetta J. Allison 2,000

Lots 22 and 23, blk 7, 1st add. John R. Farovid to Elmer li. Stewart GARY. Lot 7, blk 2, Condit-McGinnity's sub, Condit-McGinnlty Realty Co. to John Kubarees Lot 16, blk 1, Frankle's sub, William X. Rumely to Thomas Prough Lot 5S, blk 2, Douglas Pk add. Mamie Insley to Sarah Insley.. Lot 38, blk 1, So. Broadway Land Co.'s 3d add. So. Broadway Land Co. to John Sonios CROWN POINT. Blk 1. 2 and 4. blk 1, sub blk 3, Griffin's R. R. add, Robert A.

Krost 'to Fred Luebcke 1,1

HAJiyOXU. Kly.60 ft. lot 11, lots 12 to 15, Wly 50 ft. lot 16, blk 1; lots 1 to 3. Ely 75 ft. lot 4, Wly 25 ft. of Ely 50 ft. lot 5, Ely 25 ft. of Wly 50 ft. lot 5. Wly 75 ft. lot 6, lots 7and 8 and Ely 50 ft. lot 10. blk 2; lot 11 (ex Ely 50 ft), Ely 75 ft. lot 12, lots 13 to 20. ' blk 2. Wly 25 ft. lot 1, lots 2 to 7. Ely 25 ft. lot 8. Ely 25 ft. Of Wly 50 ft. lot 3, Ely 50 ft. lot 12, Wly 75 ft. lot 13, Ely 62 i ft. lot 14, Wly 50 ft. of Ely 62 ft. lot 15, Ely 75 ft. lot 16. Wly 50 ft. lot 17. lot 20. blk 3. Ely 50 ft. lot 1, lot 3 (ex Ely 50 ft.), blk 4, lots 1, 2, S, Ely 50 ft. lot 3, Wly 50 ft. lot 5, blk 5, in redlvlsion of Helberg's Oak Ridge add. Carl E. Bauer to Hammond Home & Inv. Co

W 25 ft. lot 54, E 12 ft. lot 53, Cottage Grove add, William C. Bolinan to Lillle M. Whittaker Lot 1, blk 2, East Lawn add. Joel S. Blackmun to Charles II. Johnson TOLLESTON. Lots 1 and 2, hi kl, Blvd add, Mrs. Philipina Byers to George W. Byers S-34-8 Lots 14 to 17, Eddy's 2nd add and part XE Vi NW i SW U 8-34-8, J. Frank Meeker to John G. Kemp Und i lot 43, blk 9; lots 7 and 9, blk 8; lot 9, blk 7, Logan Pk add. Hoy D. Davis to Baker T. White Lot 16, blk 3, 2nd Logan Pk add. Franc E. Woicott to Andrew Volcsko Same as last deed, Andrew Volcsko to John Lazorcsik PALMER. Lots 27 to 29( ex S 70 ft In width of said lots), Lida Wilcox to Lizzie West LAKE STATION. Lots 5 to 28, blk 2; lots 13 to 36, blk 3. G. U Nichols' add, and 16-36-7, W SW M SW '4 (ex 6 acres off S end) and blks 6, 8. 9, 11, and lots 9 to 4S, blk 7; lots 1 to 9, 22 to 30 and 4 ft. off N side of lots 10 and 21,

blk 10, Shaw sub, Frank Florian to Alfred Carlson

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