THE HOUSI-: AND ITS Koril MKNT. 



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AN UP-TO-DATE GAME-LARDER. 



Tin I riic/ic i/iililv of Snid/l Cooling I /tin/s -Description / /lie Mitc/iine Xotes on Insiilii/in, 



Air-locks -Cos/ of Installations. 



WI1LRL do all the grouse come from which arc eaten in London on &quot;The Twelfth&quot; at lunch 

 and dinner . Quantities of birds are ottered for sale early in the morning, and all of these 

 cannot possibly have been shot even on the moors nearest to London that same day. 

 The solution ot the problem, of course, is &quot;cold storage.&quot; In the last chapter weiv 

 described refrigerating installations suitable lor supplying the necessary cold-storage 

 accommodation lor a country house, and therein was mentioned incidentally that one of the most nsHi:! 

 purposes for which such a plant could be employed was in connection with the game-larder. The object 

 of the present chapter is to offer some further remarks on this branch of the subject. The birds relerred 

 to above are supplied usually from public cold stores, where they have been kept in a fro/.en Mate for MHHC 

 considerable time; but this same cold storage can. of course, be used for keeping any sort of game tor 

 shorter periods to be eaten out ol season, or to be held in store during a portion of the season, and used 

 if there is a tem 

 porary shortness 

 in the supply. 



To the in a - 

 jority of people 

 this appears to be 

 t h e e n d of the 

 m alter, a n d 

 hitherto it has not 

 been usual to have 



a p r iv a t e cold 

 store as part of 

 the establishment 

 on a sporting 

 estate. Such 

 s t ores , however, 

 have been erected 

 in several cases, 

 and t h e y h a v e 

 been proved so 

 convenient a n d 

 s a t i s f a c I o r y 

 in w o r k i n g that 

 they have come 

 to be regarded as 

 be carried out on 



I.&amp;gt;7. DIAGRAM OF STOREROOMS 



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an absolute necessity. It is not as yet realised generally that cold storage can 

 quite a small scale perfectly satisfactorily and efficiently, and for this rea-uii 

 most country houses make shift with a box, or chamber, cooled by ice. \Yhile this works all right 

 in cases where articles of food have only to be kept for a few days, it has the disadvantage of being mes&amp;gt;y 

 and costly by reason of the quantity of ice used, whereas in a small larder cooled by using a machine food 

 is kept dry and at an}- temperature desired, and therefore in good condition as long as necessary. It is 

 probable that in a few years time a refrigerating machine will come to be considered just as necessary 

 in a country house as the electric-light plant is to-day. The machine, moreover, has been designed and 

 perfected, and Ihe price is moderate for the results obtained. It is, then, only necessary for these points 

 to be realised for the adoption of these machines lo become general. 



To proceed to details. The smallest size of machine found satisfactory will make a small quantity 

 of ice and cool a chamber measuring six feet square by seven feet high. It will be obvious lhat this size 

 would not be sufficient for the needs of a very large country house, nor one where game storage is con 

 templated on a considerable scale. The plan on this page illuslrales a smallish planl arranged for the 

 storage of game. From Ihis it will be noticed that there are two rooms, the one being used as a larder 



