Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1885-11-20
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

BEsr MODE OF STORING 1cE.-lt one
will need ice next summer, he must
prepare for it now. The first thing 10
be done is to gather few wagon LOADS
of sawcust- about seven bushels VIII
be required for house twelve feet
square, and ten feet high, to give an
ample supply. If sawdust cannot De
procured, dry waste tan bark is equally
good; dry swamp muck, forest leaves
cut straw chat, or chaff from the thresh-
ing machine, are all very good suosti-
tutes; but an open air space Is only
about forty per cent. as effective rs any
one of these substances. A house twelve
feet square will hold mass of ice ten
feet square, which will give about five
thousand pounds for each foot In height,
yielding supply Of one hundred
pounds daily for about two months. One
hundred pounds of ice will cool one
hundred pounds of water from one
hundred and seventy-fOur degrees,
down to thirty-two degrees, absorbing
one hundred and forty.two degrees Of
heat from the water, in the slow process
of liuuifaction alone. These figures will
enable any person TO calculate how
much ice may be required for any spec
flied effect. Thus as one hundred
pounds of ice absorbs fourteen thou
sand and two hundred units of heat,
anG we want TO cool seven hundred and
ten pounds of milk from siXty-hve to
forty-five degrees, we shall find that the
ice will just do it, because seven hum
dred and ten pounds cooled twenty de-
grees, equals fourteen thousand and
two hundred units. In the use OF ice,
il is therefore seen to be great econ
omv, to cool the milk down TO just as
low point as possible, by means of cold
we'll or spring water, before it is set in
the ice water pool. For three hum
dred quart dairy, or for twenty-five
COWS, then, one hundred pounds of ice
will be required daily, and for the sea-
son of eight months, when ice may be
necessary, the ten feet square Of ice
should be raised eight feet, which will
allow for waste, which is usually about
forty or fifty per cent. on the average.
THE BEST SIZE OF FARMS.-People
differ very much as 10 the most proflta-
bic size of farms-some putting it down
at seventy acres, others at one hundred
and twenty-five, and others again at
much greater number OF acres.
Young farmer told us some time ago
that he was satisfied that he could never
make his way with seventy acres, and
intended as soon as possible to increase
his farm to one hundred and twenty-five
or one hundred and fifty acres. He,
however, did not consider that it was
not so much the size of the farm as the
amount Of capital at command TO proper
" conduct it to insure success. By look
ing around us we will find many far
mers who fail in their hopes, not from
having 100 little, but too much land TO
vor, thoroughly aud probably; and
one will also frequently see thai instead
of trying to acquire more land, they see
their way clear only by selling Oft Il
portion OF that which they have, anG
using the capital thus obtained in en-
riching the balance, which is made by
this course to produce all the profit an
ticipateG by the larger farm.
WHEN to WATER HoRSES.-The best
time TO water horse is an hour before
or an hour and half after eating. II
watered Immediately before eating, the
temperature of the stomach is lowered
beyond the digestive point, and the
food is not acted upon till the tempera-
ture gets back to where ii ought TO be.
Suppose his master takes him to the wa
tering trough Immediately after eating
and his stomach is full of food and he
drinks pail or two pals of water. The
consequence is that portion Of the food
is forced out Of the stomach and is
swept along into the larger intestines
without assimilation. In France some
years ago saw some horses that were
going to be killed. They were fed
coarse beans, and Immediately after
they were allowed to drink all the wa
ter hey would, and were then killed
and Gissected, and some of these bears
were found twenty-siX feet distance
ftom the stomach itself in the intestineS.
Travellers should be prepared for the
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