AMERICAN HOME GARDEN. 



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loads or cubic yards of ice should be relied ou to keep well in 

 a liouse built entirely above ground. In the cellar or cistern 

 form a much smaller quantity may bo preserved ; but in all 

 cases, the larger the aggregate mass, the better it will keep. 



TANK. 



A tank sufficient for the purposes of a small garden may be 

 made by sinking a water-tight tierce or hogshead into the 

 ground, and covering it safely, having first pitched it within 

 and without. For larger gardens, or where a more permanent 

 tank is desired, it should be built in the same manner as a 

 small, shallow cistern, having a sufficient opening to allow of 

 stin-ing the contents or adding to them, but which ordinarily 

 must be closely covered. 



For the pm'pose of stirring, it will be found very convenient, 

 and not expensive, to sot in the centre of the tank a shaft fm'- 

 nished within the tank with two or three pairs of arms nearly 

 equal to its diameter. The upper end of the shaft should pro- 

 ject fom' or five feet above the cover, and having a two-inch 

 hole through it near the top, the contents of the tank may be 

 easily stirred by turning it with a small bar. Into this tank 

 the soap-suds and other waste water from the house should be 

 conveyed, for the preparation of liquid manm'e, if needful. See 

 page 64. 



WHEELBAEEOWS. 



Caual Wheelbarrow. 



The common canal wheelbarrow, Fig. 5, is very much to lie 

 preferred for general purposes, though in most gardens the box 

 form, with loose sides. Fig. G, or something nearly similar, is 

 still generally used. 



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