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Show Spring House on Farm Has Many Advantages Milk Cans Can Be Kept Coo) by Flowing Water. Any farmer who is so fortunate as to have a flowing spring on his place should bt interesting in the arrangements arrange-ments ot the spring house and water reservoir shown In the photograph. The Interior of the spring house Is provided pro-vided with a concrete floor and a smaller concrete tank In which milk cans can be partially submerged and kept cool by the flowing water. Since Impermeability Is one of the qualifications qualifi-cations of a water tank, It Is desirable desir-able to make the concrete mixture for the tank rather dense. A 1-1H-3 mixture of cement, sand and pebbles or broken stone is recommended. The construction of the outdoor reservoir la not a difficult matter. The walls 3 la, 1 ! - ' An Attractive Spring House. are east monolithic in form, the footing foot-ing having been provided at a depth of lVs feet below the bottom of the tank. The walls are made approximately 12 Inches thick at the bottom tapering to 8 or 10 Inches at the top. After the walls are finished the floor of the tank Is laid; this Is made about four inches thick and the mixture is the same as for the walls. In order to provide a waterproof joint between the floor and the walls a narrow opening Is left between the two surfaces which is filled with melted melt-ed asphalt. In the construction of any kind of tank It Is usually necessary to Incorporate Incor-porate a certain amount of reinforcement reinforce-ment In the concrete, especially at the corners; three-eighths to one-half inch round or square bars serve Oils purpose pur-pose admirably. |