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loads or cubic yards of ice should be relied on to keep well in 

 a house built entirely above ground. In the cellar or cistern 

 form a much smaller quantity may be preserved ; but in all 

 cases, the larger the aggregate mass, the better it will keep. 



TANK. 



A tank sufficient for the purposes of a small garden may be 

 made by sinking a water-tight tierce or hogshead into the 

 ground, and covering it safely, having first pitched it within 

 and without. For larger gardens, or where a more permanent 

 tank is desired, it should be built in the same manner as a 

 small, shallow cistern, having a sufficient opening to allow of 

 stirring the contents or adding to them, but which ordinarily 

 must be closely covered. 



For the purposed stirring, it will be found very convenient, 

 and not expensive, to set in the centre of the tank a shaft fur- 

 nished within the tank with two or three pairs of arms nearly 

 equal to its diameter. The upper end of the shaft should pro- 

 ject four or five feet above the cover, and having a two-inch 

 hole through it near the top, the contents of the tank may be 

 easily stirred by turning it with a small bar. Into this tank 

 the soap-suds and other waste water from the house should be 

 conveyed, for the preparation of liquid manure, if needful. See 

 page 64. 



WHEELBARROWS. 

 Fig. 5. Fig. 6. 



Canal Wheelbarrow. Box Wheelbarrow. 



The common canal wheelbarrow, Fig. 5, is very much to be 

 preferred for general purposes, though in most gardens the box 

 form, with loose sides, Fig. 6, or something nearly similar, is 

 still generally used. 



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