Concrete in the country / [American Cement Company]. (1910)
American Cement Company · Association of American Portland Cement Manufacturers · leaf 6
resulting tracked-up kitchen floors became athing of the past. By simply increasing the width of the walk, a cellar floorwas provided and the farmer had a dry cellar* This was so clean and so odorlessthat he considered such a floor fit for that most immaculate of all places—themilk house. Concrete… … 5 As this kept the water out. the farmer reasoned that it would keep the water in, andhe started to build astern floors, walls and cover of Portland cement concrete atone-third to one-half the cost of the old brick cistern. After a little more observation, he quit diggmg deep cistern-pits with…
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