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THE PEOPLE'S FARM AND STOCK CYCLOPEDIA. 



I would rather pump water to cool the milk than to have the 

 spring-house fifty or a hundred yards away, and perhaps as I 

 have often seen down a hill. If a cold spring can be had, con- 

 veniently located, it will be better than ice-house or well. If 

 the well has an unfailing supply of cold water, a cheap wind 

 engine can be used for raising it so to give all the advantages 

 of a spring-house, or the water of a spring may by a hydraulic 

 ram be forced to a higher level, and brought to where it is 

 wanted. 



ICK HOUSE. 



Unless the supply of water is cold and abundant, ice will 

 be found a necessity in summer butter-making. The ice-house 

 may be made with some regard to taste and architectural ap- 

 pearance, or it may be a rough board shanty made by setting 

 posts in the ground and boarding up with cheap lumber. All 

 that is necessary to keep ice successfully is, that it be cut true 

 arid square so that it can be closely packed ; that there be a suffi- 

 cient bulk (I think that a body ten feet square and the same 



