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ceptacle may be made in a corner of a barn or shed, 

 or a plain shed may be made out-of-doors, or a space in 

 a mow of straw may be utilized ; any device is effective, 

 if only the above named requisites are secured. 



A very simjjle ice-house is made in this way. Nine 

 poles are set in the ground in a spot where surface water 

 will not give trouble. Boards twelve feet long are nailed 

 to the posts lengthwise all around, and the corners are 

 covered with strips, lapping one on to the edge of the 

 other, to make a neat and close finish. The boards are 

 cut out between the two posts in the center of the front 

 to make a doorway, and two inch door-cheeks and lintel 

 are spiked to these posts. The boards from the inside 

 are kept for the loose inside door, to be put in one by 

 one, resting against the door-cheeks, as the ice is filled 

 in, and the outer boards are nailed with wrought nails 

 to upright cleats to make a door. The spaces between 

 the doors are filled in with sawdust ; two-inch planks are 

 spiked on the posts flat for plates, and a conical roof 

 with broad eaves, left open at the plates for ventilation, 

 is put in. The ice is packed in as shown in figure 61, 

 and has eighteen inches of sawdust under it, and a foot 

 on each side around it. A covering of eighteen inches 

 should be put on top. In cutting the ice, care is to be 

 taken to get the blocks of even size, so as to pack it 

 closely. A convenient tool with which to get the ice 

 out of the water is made of a piece of board about six 

 or seven feet long, with a handle put through one end, 

 and a cleat nailed on the other end to hold the ice. 

 This slippery stuff is held more firmly if a few sharp- 

 pointed nails are driven through from the back, so that 

 the points project about an inch. 



A very neat building suitable for an ice-house for a 

 private dairy is shown at figure G3. This house is twelve 

 feet square, with sills and plates eight -by-eight inches, 

 cf hewn logs, and eight-by-eight-inch corner posts, eight 



