1909. 
67 
COLD STORAGE ROOM. 
E. A. J. (No Address ).—Will you please 
illustrate the method of constructing a 
cold storage room within an icehouse so 
that the ice will not need to be moved to 
produce the chilling. 
Ans. —In The R. N.-Y. for December 
28, 1907, the construction of a com¬ 
bined icehouse and cool room is de¬ 
scribed and illustrated. This design, 
here reproduced, has in view a mini¬ 
mum consumption of ice with a cool 
room maintained in the neighborhood 
of 40 to 50 degrees Fahrenheit. If a 
lower temperature than this is desired 
a somewhat different construction than 
this must be adopted and a larger vol¬ 
ume of ice stored, with which to main¬ 
tain the lower temperature. In the ice¬ 
house whose construction is illustrated, 
the ice chamber is entirely shut off 
from the cool room, and the cooling 
effect is secured through the metal com¬ 
bined ceiling and floor upon which the 
ice rests and melts, and against which 
the air of the cool room comes and is 
cooled. As represented in the illustra¬ 
tion the ice is stacked at a distance 
from the walls; the space between is 
filled with sawdust, and the top of the 
ice mass covered with it. This arrange¬ 
ment allows the ice to melt away at the 
bottom, giving its cooling effect to the 
room below, the sawdust settling as the 
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larger surface of ice, and thus main¬ 
tain the temperature of the cool room 
at a lower degree than would be pos¬ 
sible with the construction represented 
in the illustration. But to maintain this 
lower temperature the ice chamber, as 
already stated, would be required to 
contain a larger mass of ice. It would 
be necessary also to construct both ice 
chamber and cool room with walls thor¬ 
oughly air-tight and of the best insulat¬ 
ing materials. 
If the icehouse is to be built of wood 
its walls may be made as described for 
the cool room in the article referred to, 
and the space between filled either with 
dry sawdust, spent tanbark or dry 
fibrous peat, thus forming a non¬ 
conducting wall 18 inches thick, 
and if the inside wall is lined 
throughout with a light weight 
of galvanized iron, put on as de¬ 
scribed, this will make them completely 
air-tight and permanent, the metal pro¬ 
tecting the woodwork from dampness 
and decay. It would be well, for the 
sake of higher efficiency, to enter the 
cool room through an entrance chamber 
or hall, preferably built on the inside, 
making this large enough so that if a 
considerable amount of material needs 
to be put in or taken out at one time 
this may be placed in the entrance way 
and then ’one door closed and the other 
opened. Such an arrangement prevents 
the escape of the cooled air and the 
entrance of warm air on going into or 
leaving the room. A cool room of such 
a character and of good size is a great 
convenience and saving on every large 
farm. f. h. king. 
Varieties of Hickory. —There are sev¬ 
eral nuts classed under the general name 
of hickory, but the shellbark is the only 
one wanted in New York market at prices that 
will pay for shipment. We have seen lately 
several lots of unmerchantable hickories 
that would sell for barely enough to pay 
expenses, the shell being very thick anil 
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COMBINED ICEHOUSE AND COAL 
ROOM. Fig. 34. 
ice melts, but keeping it continuously 
covered and excluded from the sur¬ 
rounding walls so that neither air cur¬ 
rents nor direct radiation can be effect¬ 
ive in melting the ice. 
W here a lower temperature is desired 
in the cool room the walls of the ice¬ 
house may be given the same type of 
construction as is illustrated for the 
cool room referred to above. With 
this construction the sawdust used be¬ 
tween the ice and the walls would be 
placed permanently within the walls, 
and a tight ceiling would be provided 
to be covered with sawdust or some 
other equally good non-conductor of 
sufficient depth to protect the ice against 
the radiation of heat through the roof. 
With; this construction the icehouse 
would be filled as full as practicable 
with the ice and the floor-ceiling 
constructed in a manner which 
will permit of a free circu¬ 
lation of air between the coo] room 
and the ice chamber. Such a circulation 
can readily be secured by leaving a long 
narrow opening, two or three inches 
vide, along two opposite sides, thus 
connecting the cool room with the ice 
chamber above. With such a provision 
the air as it warms in the cool room 
would become lighter, and rise into the 
ice chamber, to be cooled and have its 
moisture condense upon the ice to be 
carried away in the drainage with the 
melting ice. Such a construction as this 
would provide a more rapid movement 
of air, bringing it in contact with a 
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