ICE-HOUSES FOR THE DAIRY FARM. 15 



A permanent and neat building is preferable, but 

 no dairy farmer should neglect a supply of ice because 

 he has no suitable building. 



Less sawdust is required on the ice if the walls of 

 the building be packed with six or eight inches of 

 sawdust ; but this plan tends to hold moisture in the 

 walls, and causes the building to decay in a short 

 time. 



For a herd of twenty-five cows a dairyman shoukd 

 provide from fifty to seventy-five tons of ice. This 

 would require about 2,000 cubic feet of space, or a 

 room ten by ten and twenty feet high. 



