FARM BUILDINGS 



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insulate the walls sufficiently to make the 16 or 20 inches of 

 packing unnecessary. Any ice house should be provided with 

 good drainage, for when insulating material gets wet, it 





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Fig. 282. Floor plan of dairy and ice-storage house combined 



looses its efficacy very materially. An ice house of any type 

 should have a large air space above the ice pack to provide 

 for the removal of the air which becomes hot when the sun 

 beats upon the roof. 



MILK HOUSE 



A milk house is intended to be a combination of cooling 

 room, storage room, and washing plant, in which the opera- 

 tions may be carried on which ordinarily are conducted in 

 the kitchen and cellar. The equipment of the milk house will 

 include a tank, which will contain water for cooling the milk 



