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Mr. Wentworth: Do you feel thoroughly satisfied 

 with it? 



Mr. Hopkins: I do, yes. I would not have it taken out 

 if I could get my money back. 



Mr. Wentworth: Do you ever have any trouble; any 

 break-downs or stoppages ? 



Mr. Hopkins: I never had anything break down but once 

 in a year and a half; then a little casting broke. 



Mr. Knight: What kind of a machine do you use? 



Mr. Hopkins: One made by A. H. Barber, of Chicago. 



Mr. Dexter: At what price per ton for ice put into an 

 ice house would you think would be a little more ecenomical 

 than the machine you now use? The cost of the cooling 

 depends, of course, upon the cost of ice per ton. In some 

 localities it can be had very cheaply and put into the ice house; 

 perhaps twenty cents a ton. 



Mr. Hopkins: I am not positive what it actually costs 

 to run the machine as we run it. At the same time we do 

 our other work, so I can not tell the actual cost of our power. 



Mr. Judd: Did you have to enlarge your boiler any? 



Mr. Hopkins: No, sir; we have a twenty-horse power 

 running three separators. 



Mr. Dexter: Would you have avoided the purchase of 

 the machine if you could have put ice into the ice house on 

 your premises at fifty cents a ton? 



Mr. Hopkins: At that one place we put up about 130 

 loads of ice, which I presume would run in the neighborhood 

 of a ton and a half, and it cost us about 90 cents. I prefer 

 the ice machine to the ice at that cost. 



Mr. Dexter: Do you think it would be better for a 

 creamery man to have that machine where he could put up 

 his ice at a cost of less than a dollar a ton? 



Mr. Hopkins: I would for myself, yes. 



The Chairman: I have two of these ice machines; one T 

 put in the creamery last spring, and I am frank to say that I 

 am very much pleased with it. My room I built with, I 

 think, three air spaces and one mineral wool space, but I find 

 the temperature is, if anything, a little less than Mr. Hopkins'; 

 perhaps we run our compressor a little later. I know the 

 brine vat has three or four inches of ice all over the outside 



