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ice room made of upright planks. Better have it lined with zinc or 

 galvanized iron, inside of the plank. Scantling, 2 by G inches, are 

 {)!aced on the ice 4 feet apart, made even with the ice. Wide plank 

 (P) are placed loose across the scantling, the edges as close as may he 

 together, to prevent the filling falling on the ice. 



Sawdust, G inches thick, is placed on the plank (P). Shavings are 

 not compact enough on the top to keep the air from the ice. (O.) A 

 discharge pipe to conduct the water from the ice. (W.) An ante- 

 room with an ice-water trough, (Y) in which canned fruit is kept, in 

 large stone crocks, for retailing by small measure. The drawings are 

 adapted to small houses, for pi-ivate use. 



The room (W) with trougli (Y) forms an excellent dairy. Trough 

 ( Y) may be put in the cellar of a dwelling house. 



THE COST OF A HOUSE. 



A house, with room 15 ft. square, 8 ft. high, 22 ft. square on out- 

 side — with capacity for holding 500 bushels — would be about as fol- 

 lows : 



Common iron, at 7^ cts. per lb., cost in the house, $210 00 

 Galvanized iron. No. 2G, at 20 cts. per lb., ... 105 00 

 Galvanized iron. No. 20, at 18 cts. do., ... 80 00 



Whole cost, probably, 800 00 



The frame and roof being simple, their cost need not exceed what 

 similar structures would cost. 



A house 17 feet square outside, 10 feet square inside, holding 250 

 bushels, and 18 feet high, would cost, for 



Common iron. No. 2G, $151 00 



Galvanized iron. No. 2G, 50 00 



do do No. 20, 44 00 



Whole (estimated) cost, 475 00 



Large houses are made with an entry through the middle with 5 or 

 6 rooms on each side ; their cost, generally, about at the rate of $1 

 for every bushel they hold. 



PRINCIPLES OF THE HOUSE. 



Coldness, dryness, purity, absence of light, sameness of temperature, 

 exclirtion of oxygen, the great agent of decomposition, — and the im- 

 mei'sioQ of the fruit in an atmosphere entirely harmless to it, make up, 

 when combined in suitable degrees and proportions, all known needed 



