The Florida agriculturist., 1889-02-20
To Keep the Dairy Cool.

one winch Was suggested after TRIAL DY
New Zealand farmer many years ago. /
will quote his own words: 81 must give
you to understand that my dairy is not
a grand stone structure with tagged
floors, neither is it built OF brick nor dug
out of the side of hill, but, though sim
ply made of timber, ofthe board and bat
ten type of construction, and attached to
the back part of my house, will venture
to declare that 1T is one of the COOLEST ii
not the coolest, dairies in the Kaipara.
Having made this particularly bold asser-
ton, shall now endeavor to show, for
the benefit of your readers who may like
to try my plan, howit is that dareto do
so. To begin with must explain that /
have covered the roof with sods, cut
about eight inches thick, having, of
course, first nailed on pieces of tin and
zinc to prevent the boards from rotting.
These sods | water with syringe every
other day, and have now a nice crop of
green growing, which effectually prevents
the rays from the sun penetrating and
heating the building SO far as concerns
the roof, which is the most important
part to protect, as it receives the suns
rays at nearly a right angle during the
hottest part of the day. At each end of
my dairy have large opening, or win,
dow, covered with perforated zinc, to keep
out flies and other insects, and at the
same time to insure q thorough draught.
On the outside of these openings are
stretched pieces OF canvas, nailed to taper
ing strips Of wood, placed one on each
side of the window. Above each window
is fixed a kerosene tin, cut open on one
side to allow of it's being filed with water.
In this receptacle | introduce one end Of a
piece of cloth, the other end hanging
over the outside of the tin and touching
the canvas blind, to which it is sewn, in
order to prevent it blowing about with
the wind. Along the bottom of each canvas
blind is strip of tin, bentso as toform a
gutter, and under the lowest of this
gutter stands bucket. The apparatus
being thus completed, the kerosene tins
are filled with water, which, being gradu-
ally absorbed and drawn up the cloth by
the force known as capillary attraction,
drops down on the outside and keeps the
canvas blind saturated with moisture.
The evaporation from the film of water
thus spread over the canvas covers pro-
duces cold, and the air chilled by this
means enters the dairy through the per-
fOrated zinc. A kerosene tin filed with
water, with cloth attached, will keep the
canvas saturated for fifty hours without
requiring any attention whatever, and at
the end of that time all that is necessary
to be done is to pour the water which has
run into the buckets placed beneath the
cutters back into the kerosene tins, add
ing, of course, the quantity lost by evap-
oration. By following the above instruc-
tions anyone can secure a perfectly cool
dairy or -larder with very little trouble,
and scarcely any appreciable expenditure.
AS proof of the efficacy of the plan,
may say that | have kept meat perfectly
fresh for five days during very hot wealth
er.' Thesimple and dinexpensivea
mentioned above proves most effective,
as the following shows From the mete-
10 hIoc Oh from tho Ohe,orx,