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at figure (j2. Boards are placed across tlie inside of the 

 door as the ice is packed, until the top is reached. Rye 

 or other long straw is tied into bundles, as shown in the 

 illustration, and these bundles are packed tightly into 

 the space between the boards and the door. The door 

 is then closed. We have found these straw bundles to 

 seal up the door-space of an ice-house in summer, as well 

 as the door of a root-cellar in winter, very effectively. 

 AVhen the house is opened in the summer, and the upper 

 packing is disturbed to reach the ice, it should always be 



Fig. 62.— DOCK FOB ICE-HOUSE. 



carefully replaced, and the door closed up again with the 

 straw bundles. The bundles of straw may be fastened 

 together by means of two or three cross-laths, and they 

 can be removed and replaced very readily. The mate- 

 rial rftquired for a house such as is here described, 

 twenty feet long, sixteen feet wide, and ten feet high, 

 and which will hold over sixty tons of ice, is as follows : 

 324 feet 2x6 studding; 12 rafters 2x4, 12 feet long; 

 576 feet matched boards ; 720 feet boards for lining ; 480 

 feet rooting boards, 3,000 shingles, or 480 feet of roofing; 

 one batten door, hinges and nails. About twenty-five 



