The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-12-02
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cold rooms for butter making,as recon.
mended last winter by Mr.. l., 8. Har'
din. has been adopted experimentaIly.
by quite = number Of dairsmen In New
England and elsewhere, duriug the
mast summer. Several refrigerators
have been put into use for keeping milk
IN son,e of the most successful farms In
Massachusetts,, from some Of which fa'
vorablc reports are received. In more
Northern localities. where the weather
averages several degrees cooler In sum
NOR. less favorable results are attained.
Some Of the Pennsylvania farmers have
adopted his system with still better
auccess. Mr.. John I. Carter, a farmei
of note In that state, has been trying
the cold method, and in a letter to DIR.
Hardin suggests some improvements III
the details of his method. The follow
jpa letter of Mr., Hardin Is In answer
TO thes @ suggestions, and rs the subject
is OF general interest 10 dalrymen, we
Law Il before our readers. He wrises:-
Mr.. Johu I, Carter, In his very thor
bpgh and intelligent report oil the re-
sulls Of trials with my milk cooler,
suggests to me that 1t would be a good
plan to build my boxes into the | arti-
ton between the ice.house and milk
room. 1 drew plans for such an ar
rangemsnt some three years ago, but
after further experience and more ma
ture deliberation, coupled with careful
experiments. ] have decided against
the plan, aud will give my reasons ;
nlso stating what strikes my mind ~
The perfectIon OF u dairy house. MY
objections to Mr.. Carter's plan are--
Arst, the side of the box exposed to the
damp atmosphere Of the ice-houst
would SOM decay. Second, ice must
be washed clean before II is put In the
box, The air In the box Is 30 close that
old 90 wdust or old straw In the boa
makes trouble. Third. the air In all
ice.house is always more or less
i'funky" from the presence Of decaying
boards. sawdust. or STRAW, and II there
Ii a door to the box opening into the
ics.house, and one opening into the ad.
joining milk.room. the damp "funky'
air of the i,e.house will pass down into
aud through the box. Nc amount Of
labor-saving apparatus will com nensate
for the error Of allowing bad air to get
Into the box or milk-room. Fourth,
the partitioned box suggested by Mr..
Carter would use up more Ice than four
separate boxes. I have taken a mum
Der Of my re~frigsrs,ors, all of the same
size, but the walls differently construc-
ted, I have made them with the cham
bers between the sides composed of air,
paper, charcoal and sawdust also ven.
tlla,ed, and various thicknesses from
four Inches to eighteen Inches stood
these boxes side by side and put a large
lump of northern lake Ice In each box,
each lump weighing exactly the same,
closed the doors aud then weighed the
Ice ut intervals until 1t had melted
away. I found that a box with four
inch walls stuffed with sawdust or
charcoal Zone was Just as good as the
other), with no ventilation to the box
and air allowed to circulate all about 1t,
would keep ice the longest.
In the light OF these experiments, If
I were going to build an ice-house and
dali y.house, ! would proceed thus:
For my dairy-roOnn, I would dig a
sunare hole in the earth five feet deep
aud fifteen feet square. Wall the sides
with brick jointed with cement. Have
no drain In it., and have no ventilators
to this cellar keep the floor wiped UP
clean, and the sides and ceiling Of the
cellar freshly whitewashed. Have the
steps enter the cellar from the outside
under a lean-to shed. where the tins
can be aired, and have u close. fitting
door at the bottom of the steps. In this
cellar put your refrlgerators for holding
the milk. your ohurn, butter.worker,
and table for printing the butter on
and have nothing else In the CELLAR.
The upper half Of the door should be
glazed. and will admit . sufficient
light. This is an exact description OF
my own cellar. with which I have bad
perfect success , but not until I closed
up all the veEtilators, and kept the
floor perfectly clean, and had the walls
and ceiling whitewashed about once
every three weeks.
On the south or east side Of this milk.
room I would dig an ice.house of size
to suit my dairy, and from two to ten
feet below the bottom OF my dairy
room. ! would have u nine inch. air
tight brick wall between the dairy
rom aud the ics.house. This wall
will give your dairy.room sill the cool.
Ing Il will need from the ice-house.
Over the ice.houss and dairy.room
could be built any kind ola structure
that may sult the fancy and purse OF
the builder. I have a hot kitchen over
mine.
know that q refrigerator, to keep
Ice perfectly, should not have 8 ventl.
lator in il, but 1t is grave matter OF
doubt In my mind whether or not
there should be a ventilaior In an ice
house. Everybody says there should
be, but why? Is not the air Inside o.
an Ice. house generally cooler than that
outsider Ifso,you are letting out cool
sir and taking in hot air. Which way
does the air go through these ventiiat-
ors, In or out7 VIII not the hot Air
from without pass into the ventilstor,
become cool. and sink down through
the Ice and out a. the sides Of the
house? Who will tell usf
Now that we are roofing out some Of
our old prejudices Oh the dairy subject.
let us see II we ara not ventilating bur
selves TO death. 1t 10 q common prac-
tiee to put u drain or dry we'll In an