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them to the creamery, wash from them the sawdust or 

 other packing, and dispose of them as may be required, 

 is, we know from experience, work which occupies con- 

 siderable time, when time is scarcely to be spared from 

 other pressing duties. The good manager will aim to 

 distribute his work so that it may be done in the easiest 

 manner consistent with the best results, and as time is 

 money, time gained when 

 it is worth the most money 

 is equivalent to three or 

 four times as much ex- 

 pended w^hen it is very 

 cheap. AVe will give a 

 plan that will be suitable 

 for each method, leaving 

 those interested to choose 

 between them. A self- 

 acting ice-house may be 

 constructed in the usual 

 manner, but requires the 

 addition of ventilating 

 tubes through which cold 

 air may be brought into 

 the cooling room ; and 

 drainage pipes by which 

 the water produced by the 

 ^necessary melting of the 

 ice may be drav.n off from 

 the bottom into a cold pool 

 where it may be utilized 



to the best advantage. A horizontal section or plan 

 of an ice-house of this description is given at fig- 

 ure 65. Here the ice-house adjoining the creamery is 

 shown. Through the body of the ice are four zinc or 

 galvanized iron pipes or tubes having a number of holes 

 bored through the covering at the top to admit the air. 





Fiff. 65. 



PLAN OF CBEAMEKT AND ICE-HOUSE, 



A horizontal section 



