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Farm Icehouse 
(Continued from page 470) 
example, suppose the daily needs were 
found to aggregate about one ton per 
month and that ice was wanted from 
storage for six months of the year. This 
would mean a yearly ice requirement «: 
six tons, and as we are allowing 50 per 
cent for melting, three tons should be 
added to this amount, making nine tons in 
all. As each ton requires a space of 40 
cubic feet, the whole ice pile will occupy 
000 cubic feet, and if built in the form of 
a cube, as it should be, the pile would be 
a little over seven feet on a side. A thick¬ 
ness of at least a foot should be allowed 
for the packing or heat insulation, and 
this, with'the thickness of the icehouse 
walls, would necessitate a house a little 
more than 10 feet square. 
The following table, adapted fron 
Cornell Reading Course Lesson No. 13c 
by R. 15. Robb and ,T. L. Strahan, gives 
the capacity in tons of different sized 
houses after allowing a space of one foot 
all around for insulation, assuming a 
thickness of six inches for the walls. It 
is here added as an aid in selecting the 
best size house for a given capacity: 
Capacity in tons of various sized ice¬ 
houses. allowing one foot between icehouse 
wall and ice pile for packing material. 
Size of 
House 
Packing 
Capacity 
Depth of Filling 
r 
(feet i 
(feet) 
6 ft. 
8 ft. 
10 ft. 
10x10 
7x 7 
7.4 
0.8 
12.3 
12x12 
9x 0 
12.2 
16.2 
20.3 
14x14 
11x11 
24.2 
30.3 
16x16 
13x13 
33.8 
42.2 
18x18 
15x15 
45.0 
56.3 
20x20 
17x17 
r>7.7 
72.2 
oo v oo 
19x19 
72.3 
90.3 
24x24 
21x21 
.... 
88.4 
111.0 
Size of Packing 
House Capacity ,— 
Depth 
of Filling 
" " "\ 
(feet) 
(feet) 
12 ft. 
14 ft. 
10 ft. 
18 ft. 
10x10 
7x 7 
... 
12x12 
9x 9 
24.3 
. . 
.... 
.... 
14x14 
11x11 
30.3 
42.4 
16x10 
13x13 
50.0 
59.0 
67.4 
18x18 
15x1."* 
07.4 
78.7 
90.0 
20x20 
17x17 
80.7 
101.1 
115.6 
130.0 
22x22 
19x19 
108.2 ‘ 
120.2 
144.2 
102.5 
24x24 
21x21 
132.2 
154.5 
170.3 
198.5 
Ice is one of the few crops that can be 
obtained with no other expense than that 
of harvesting and storing, and, as indi¬ 
cated in the foregoing, it can be stored in 
almost any kind of a place so long as the 
drainage is good and it is protected from 
heat. Practically every farm has a shed 
or other outbuilding that could be utilized 
to protect a supply of ice for the first 
season, and after enjoying its benefits for 
one Summer there will be no difficulty in 
finding a place for it the next season. 
R. H. s. 
Ventilation for Storage Cellar 
Reading your “Storage for Apples.” 
page 165, leads me to ask advice. On our 
farm is on old-fashioned outdoor cellar, 
built into a bank, with stone walls, dirt 
floor and stone roof, all well covered with 
dirt and gravel out to and beyond the 
door. A wooden door shuts into a heavy 
door frame, fairly tight, and there is no 
other opening. Is ventilation necessary? 
Riverside. Conn. c. b. a. 
While probably not absolutely neces¬ 
sary, I would consider a ventilating sys¬ 
tem a great improvement to the cellar as 
it now stands. With a ventilator in¬ 
stalled. both out-take and intake fine 
openings, the moisture content of the cel¬ 
lar could be more easily regulated than at 
present. The flues should be provided 
with dampers or covers, so that the 
amount of air passing through them could 
be regulated from the maximum down to 
nothing, and with this construction as 
well as the addition of a small entrance 
chamber or anteroom with double doors 
you would be pretty well equipped to con¬ 
trol both temperature and moisture con¬ 
tent of the air, as well as insuring a 
sweeter air in the cellar. b. h. s. 
Leading crops are corn, hay, potatoes 
and tobacco. Wheat is looking fine : grass 
not very good. At the farm sales corn is 
selling from $1.35 to $1.37 for 70 lbs. 
on ear. Potatoes. $1.80 per bu.: wheat. 
$“.20; tobacco, from 14 to ISc per lb.; 
apples. $2 per bu.; fat hogs. 17%c per 
lb., live weight; eggs, 30c: butter, 50c; 
lard. 20 to 24c per lb.; chickens. 26c per 
lb.. At a farm sale of Holstein cattle 
recently cows averaged $178.17 per head; 
heifers. $154.58 per head, and yearling 
calves. $01 per head. b. w. h. 
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