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Better dames
In America - •
The American home la the foundation
our national rihl individual well
being.—President Calvin Coolldge.
BUK U. S. A. —Garden Nation
ol’ the World In li)30.
Hotter Homes in America.
Here are two slogans to
conjure with. They cry on
:i vast army of Americans
fighting for two national
causes that are so inseparable as to
he practically one and the same. More
gardens means better homes. Better
homes means more gardens. There
fore the ’’Garden Nation of 1030" will
have “Better Homes.” So the organ
ised clubwomen are to be congratu
lated they arc the shock troops of
nc army and active belligerents in
the other.
The first attack in force in tbe 1024
campaign will be made April 20-26, the
second annual National Garden week.
The second mass movement will be
made May 11-IS, the third Better
Homes in America Demonstration
week.
The plain truth is that Uncle Sam
didn't wake up when Opportunity
knocked at his door with her call to
establish a permanent national pence
garden on the foundation of war gar
den experience. The patriotic war
garden was rapidly becoming a na
tional institution, with substantial de
velopment along scientific lines. Now
the work lias to ho dine all over again.
And now the appeal is not to the ex
altation of a patriotic war spirit, hut
n> common, ordinary, everyday human
aattire which h a very different
thing.
National Garden week is conducted
•>y the General federation of Women’s
Uiuf's, with a nation-wide membership
<*f 2.0(10,000 it Is directed by Mrs.
Jfm D. Sherman, chairman of the de
partment of applied education, who
miccessfully directed the 11)23 cam
paign and served during Ute war as
special assistant director of the United
Slates School Garden Army and a di
rector of die National War Garden
commission. This may be her lasi ap
pearance in the role, as Colorado has
announced that it will nominte her for
*lp presidency at the June convention
the General Federation, to succeed
Urs Thomas G. Winter, whose term
Hca expires.
The General Federation has the co
•perntlon of Better Homes in America,
ef the United States Department of the
Interior through the bureau of educa
tion. and of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, through the ex
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tension service, tiie forest service and
the bureau of plant industry. It has
the approval and good wishes of offi
cial Washington.
President Coolldge writes Mrs. Win
ter :
National Garden week seems now to
be well on the way to establishment as
a fixed national affair, and I hope this
year’s observation of It will strengthen
its position in tho public interest and
activities.
Secretary of Commerce Hoover
writes Mrs. Sherman:
It adds to our appreciation and un
derstanding of life. It builds self-re
spect In the Individual and in the com
munity and it may become an ennobling
avocation and form of public service.
April 20-20 will not synchronize with
actual garden-making in all localities
of the United States, but the program
of activities is so large that every com
munity can feature, ns Mrs. Sherman
puts it. "some of the many phases of
gardening in its relation to the home
and the life of the community in terms
of health, education and prosperity
and from tiie viewpoint of utility and
beauty." Tiie program in detail would
fill columns; it includes everything
from landscape gardening to the hum
ble cabbage; from tree-planting to lec
tures by radio; from the Sunday ser
mon to the Saturday children's pag
eants.
BETTER HOMES IN AMERICA
The Better Homes in America move
ment was begun In 1922 by Mrs. Wil
liam Brown Moloney, editor of the De
lineator, and an advisory council of
which Calvin Coolldge was honorary
head and Herbert Hoover chairman.
It quickly assumed such national fm
portajice that the magazine, which had
provided generous financial support,
withdrew from nil connection with It
to allow it to be taken over by a per
manent educational, noncommercial or
ganization, incorporated in Delaware
as a public service corporation, with
headquarters in Washington.
President Coolldge remains chair
man of tiie advisory council, which
includes Secretaries Hoover, Work and
Davis nnd twenty-five oilier men and
women of national importance, such as
Julius 11. Barnes, president of the
United States Chamber of Commerce;
Dr. 11 ugh S. Camming, United States
surgeon general; Livingston Farrnnd,
American Child Health associnfion;
Dr. Ice K. Frankel, chairman National
Health council; Mrs. John Lyons, pres
ident National Federation of Music
Clubs; Mrs. W. C. Martin, chairman
women’s division. Federation of Farm
and Home Bureaus; Theodore Roose
velt, assistant secretary of the navy ;
John Barton Payne, head of the Amor
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tional Housing association; Airs. Win
ter, Mrs. Meloney and Mrs. Sherman.
Secretary Hoover Is president of the
board of trustees. The executive direc
tor is James Ford, associate professoi
of social ethics at Harvard, who has
made a study of housing problems and
has been granted leave of absence foi
this work. The other trustees are
Miss Grace Abbott, chief, United States
children’s bureau; Don Barber and
Edwin H. Brown, fellows of the Amer
lean Institute of Architects; John M.
Gries, chief, division of building and
housing, United States Department ot
Commerce; Christian A. Herter,
George W. Wilder, Mrs. Meloney und
Mrs. Sherman.
Co-operation by the many organiza
tions in *he advisory council will nol
be perfunctory. The General Fedora
tion of Women’s Clubs, for example,
has reaffirmed, through resolution of its
board of directors, its support of. the
reorganized movement und Mrs. Sher
man Ims sent out a general letter tc
the presidents of the clubs in the Gen
eral Federation, asking their active co
operation in organizing local Better
Homes demonstrations.
The general plan is for a community
to buy, rent, or build a house, which
is then equipped ns an educational ex
hibit of what a home should he. Pub
lic demonstration is made of house
and contents and of methods to make
home life attractive.
Last year Port Huron, Mich., took
the first prize of SSOO. Boy and girl
students in civics tinsses of the Wash
ington junior high A<h>l planned,
built, equipped and demonstrated a
five-room house, suitable for an indus
trial worker. Seventy-nine organiza
tions participated and 8,000 persons
visited the home, which cost $5,500 and
was sold for $5,800.
The alms of Better Homes in Amer
ica are comprehensive, covering every
phase of home-making. The guidebook
for 1924 contains Instructions and pro
grams.
President Coolidge writes Secretary
Hoover;
1 count It a happy obligation to re
main chairman of the advisory council.
Secretary Hoover, in a foreword in
the guidebook, says:
A great need Is apparent for well
directed. concerted efforts to work out a
solution from the point of view of tie
family with a small income, that
to make both ends meet. The co-opera
tion of the citizens of each commu’iity
in Better Homes demonstrations lias
been found successful and agreed upon
by leading organizations representing
millions of men and women as a prac
tical way of meeting this need, and ot
presenting the results of study to the
public in a way that can readily b*
grasped.
lean Red Cross; J. Hor
ace McFarland, president
American Civic associ
ation; Miss Adella I’rich
ard, president National
Federation of Business
and Professional Wom
en’s Clubs; Miss Louise
Stanley, chief United
States bureau of home
economics; Dr. J ohn
James Tigert, United
States commissioner of
education; John Ihlder,
civic development depart
ment, United States
Chamber of Commerce;
Lawrence Veiller, Na-
Modern Dairy Barn Reduces
Labor; Increases Production
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By WILLIAM A. RADFORD
Mr. William A. Radford will answejj
question-* and give advice FREE OF
L IST on all subjects pertaining to the
subject of building work on the farm,
for the readers of this paper. On ac
count of his wide experience as Editor,
Author and Manufacturer, he is, with
out doubt, the highest authority on all
these subjects. Address all inquiries
to William A. Radford, No. 1827
Prairie avenue. Chicago, 111., and only
inclose two-cent stamp for reply.
The barn on a modern dairy farm
is a combination milk factory and
warehouse for the storage of raw ma
terials which tiie cows turn into milk.
The manufacturing processes are per
formed on the ground, or stable floor.
Above is the storage or warehouse,
where the raw materials in the shape
of feed are readily available.
Production, or rather the ltthor at
tendant upon production, is performed
efficiently, at the least expenditure of
labor. To accomplish tills labor-sav
ing equipment Is installed. There is
the litter carrier which serves the
double purpose of transporting feed
direct to the cows’ mangers and tak
ing the refuse out of the stable. There
ire tiie drinking bowls at each cow
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stall winch automatically provide the
rows with fresh drinking water when
ever the milk-making plant needs it.
There is tlie ventilating system that
carries out the foul air which the cow
lias breathed and sucks in the fresh
air that she needs. There are the
stanchions which hold the animals se
curely in their stalls, but permit tbe
greatest freedom of movement. And
then there is the sanitary steel stall
partition. All of tills equipment is
found in the modern dairy barn, and
with it dairymen are performing the
regular tasks of coring for a dairy
herd at the expenditure of the least
amount of labor, which means greater
profits.
The barn shown in the accompanying
: l .-trillion is the modern type of
-manufacturing plant. This bam
i fßeiently planned. It Is of the
required size to house the cows com
fortably and at the same time there
is no waste space. The building la
wide enough to permit two rows of
stalls, a driveway and feeding alley
through tiie center, and litter alleys
along each wall. Forty-four cows are
held in stanchions, 22 on each side
and facing the central feed alley. Re
sides there are pens for the bull, the
calves and for three cows.
The barn is 3G feet wide, which is
an economical width, and 125 feet
long. The concrete foundation ulso
provides a concrete floor. The super
structure is of plank frame construc
tion, with a gambrel roof. This method
of construction eliminates supporting
columns in tiie Lay mow above the
stable floor, the roof being self-sup
porting. The building is provided with
lightning rods and suction roof venti
lators, which suck the foul air out of
the stable through the ventilating
flues.
At tiie far end of the building is the
silo, with a feed room built around it,
The overhead track extends to tiie
feed room, so that the silage may ha
shoveled into the carrier and taken
directly to tiie mangers, where it is
fed to the cows. How the interior
of the barn is arranged, nnd the lo
cation of the labor-saving equipment
is shown on the floor plan.
Cows to be productive must Ikj
well fed, have plenty of water and
fresh air, and above all things ho
comfortable. Such a modern dairy
barn as the one illustrated provide:*
all of these features.
Concrete House May
Be Built in One Day
Utilizing principles that he devel
oped in designing concrete ships, a
well-known inventor of submarine
boats lias perfected a method of man
ufacturing houses of any size and any
style of architecture and slabs speci
fied, *rom precast concrete clabs of
standard sizes, which he declares can
be put up like Aladdin’s palace, vir
tually overnight.
The houses, their inventor writes In
Popular Science Monthly, may be of
any type, from a small bungalow to a
skyscraper, according to tiie archi
tect’s plans. The exterior finish may
be brick, stone, shingles, stucco or
whatever else is desired. Tiie houses
are said to be rainproof, moistproof,
cold and heatproof, and all but inde
structible and their inventor declares
they can be built for one-half the cost
of brick or frame construction. Small
houses, lie says, can be built in a day.
Many methods have been devised for
constructing buildings from precast
slabs, but the houses, according to their
inventor, are unique in that each house
built by this method will be different
from every other house, even though
slabs of the same standardized sizes
are used In the construction of all-
Distinctive decorative effects, tiie in
ventor explains, are produced by plac
ing a “veneer” of the desired mate
ria! on tiie surface when casting, wh-ie
different good-sized rooms and walls
of varying heights may be obtained by
combining slabs of various sizes. A
construction work Is performed by ma
chinery, the slabs being cast at a cen
tral plant, transported to the bulHliag
site and there lifted into place
derricks.
Weather Strips Will
Keep Your House Warm
A warm house In winter time la
practically impossible without *'
er stripping. The settling
house, even on the best founda.i ■ ■
is sufficient to cause air passages
appear with resultant drafts a
waste of heat.
The metal weather strip is ,n J
means by which a permanently -
tight window can be adjusted. -
strips cost very little in compm
with tiie saving in fuel, toe ” -
attained through a warm ‘
tiie economy in cleaners’ b* s 1
through the lessening of infiltrate 1
dust and soot. lv
Metal weather strips are so . • •
adjusted to the window up
frame that ull shrinkage s >
without interfering with the ■■■
opening or closing, a point ’ ~ '' tro9>
predated by those who have ha
ble with windows sticking.