ICE-HOUSES. 



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feet high. Studding is set in as needed. Eough (or 

 planed) boards are nailed horizontally within and per- 

 pendicularly without, and the cracks battened with nar- 

 row strips. The wall space is filled with sawdust. Dry 

 wheat chaff might be used in the absence of sawdust. 

 The roof is of single boards, with a ventilating opening 

 at the top. The doors are single, with short cross-boards 

 inside to hold the ice up. The ice is packed in solid. 



Fig. 63.— ICE-HOUSE FOR PRIVATE DAIRY. 



except a space of six or eight inches all around filled with 

 sawdust. When full, a foot or so of sawdust is put on 

 top of the ice. The flooring is of inch boards laid on a 

 bed of cobble stones. 



A rustic ice-house on the farm of Donald G. Mitchell, 

 the popular writer, is shown at figure 64. It is given 

 here to show how simple a thing a really effective ice- 

 house may be, and that the materials for its construction 

 are wholly immaterial so long as the principles before 

 mentioned are effectively carried out. 



Cold storage is indispensable for the preservation of 

 butter made in the summer time ; and at times it is a 

 matter of convenience to use ice for the cooling of the 



