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Show Concrete Block Houses SOME time ago rrofeyyor V:. 1!. House of the Colorado agricultural college planned a residence, and as tin- bids for brick mil stone were beyond the size i f his pockelbook he decided to buy a concrete block machine am) make the blocks hlmeslf Inexperience In this cave him s-.nie anxiety, but he Is now-prepared now-prepared to say that care In mixing, proportioning propor-tioning and curing Is all that Is neceaary. anil any one who has spare time and willing muscles can make these blocks, and tho houses made of Hu m will be as strung and as durable as stone. I'erhaps you don t like the dull gray color. It Is cold and gloomy and many object to It. Here Is one way to get around the color proposition; ic-t a machine which will mold the blocks face down, using a plain face plate; sprinkle In a little dry sand over th plate, say about one-tuarter of an Inch thick; then sprinkle in a layer of broken boulders, crushed granite or crushed bull nuartz. On top e.if this place a layer ef sand and cement one-half an lm h thick in the proportion of two parts of -vnd to one part ol cement; then llll up the mob) with the concrete (1 p. irt of cement, 2'-i parts of sand and 5 parts of line gravel), ram It up and set the block 1 In the yard. When twenty-four or fe.rty-eight fe.rty-eight hours old, rick them up a nil with i hosV wash off the .sand from Ihe stones. You then have a beautiful rough face. The blocks will look inUhtv- ronjji in the yard, but don't b-t your neighbors scare you out they will look line when in the wall. Mr. House used pink crushed granite In his, with good effect. fine sack of cement will make seventeen bio. ks, if made as above (me or. Unary load of sund and nr.ivi-l. niie.J as tlinctfd. will make seventy-live blocks, and two good nun can" turn out from 12.', t 1'0 blocks a day. One block will be equivalent to sixteen bricks. Masons lay them in tin- wall at 4 cents each, and make g.....J waves at it. Mr. House sjved a great deal . n his residence In thl "ay. with the result that his hoii'-e Is io In the Fummcr, warm in the winter and is dry as c;n be from cellar to garret. Try It; you can do It |