SOLON ROBINSON, 1845 533 



is actively at work among my brother farmers, who I 

 hope will be interested in this visit to a Yankee plow 

 factory by their old friend, 

 New York, Oct. 23, 1845. Solon Robinson. 



Ice-Houses 



[New York American Agriculturist, 4:345; Nov., 1845 1 ] 



[October, 1845] 



We need not go to China to learn how to make an 

 ice-house. "A cheap plan for an ice-house," has been 

 known in this ice-growing country of ours so long, that 

 the fashion has got to be so old it has been forgotten. 

 Where hay or straw is plenty, it has the merit of cheap- 

 ness as well as goodness. It is built thus : 



Mark a circle upon the ground (if for a single family) , 

 say 12 feet diameter, and drive a row of stakes 18 inches 

 apart, 6 feet high: outside of this, set another circle of 

 stakes, 4 feet from the inner one; now fill in very com- 

 pactly with coarse hay or straw between the rows of 

 stakes; cut out a space for a passage, which must have 

 two doors to fit tight; lay poles across the inner space, 

 and build up a stack to shed off the water; lay some 

 poles or brush in the bottom to keep the ice off the 

 ground, which keep well drained, and your "cheap ice- 

 house" will keep itself and yourself cool. 



Try it. I assure you that it will keep in till you are 

 tired of it, and then it will make the old sow and pigs 

 a capital hen roost. Solon Robinson. 



New York, October, 1845. 



Getting Through the World and the Cost Thereof 

 Upon Eastern Rail-Roads and Western Steamboats. 



[Daily Cincinnati Gazette, Nov. 12, 1845] 



On Lake Erie, Nov. 1, 1845. 

 Messrs. Editors: — Some of your "out West," (that is, 

 if there is now any such place,) readers will perhaps be 



1 Reprinted in British American Cultivator, Toronto, Canada, 

 n. s. 2:28 (January, 1846). 



