Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1895-11-23
cold storage ON the Farm.

the cold storage house needs con-
siderable sketching and drawing
beforehand in order to make it as
useful as possible. 1t is not diff
ficult matter to combine a dairy
with cold storage house, and the
result will be eminently satisfac-
tory. The dairy house should be
constructed on one side or back OF
the ice house, and the waste water
from the melting ice can then be
run into cooling watts in the milk
room for chilling the milk in Sum-
mer. In this way there is very lit
tie waste, and even the melting
can be made of use.
The cold storage building should
be nearly square, and built with
two stories. The first story is used
for keeping fruits and other farm
goods, while the second floor is
used to be filled with ice in the
Winter. The dairy house should
be attached to the storage house,
and should be only one story high,
running along as far as needed.
A platform should be constructed
at the back of the dairy house,
with steps to walk up and down
and drive for wagons to back up
to. Pipes should be connected
with the ice house upstairs to col
lect the melting water and conduct
it into the cooling watts in the dairy
room on the ground floor.
The floor between the ice room
and the store room should be ar
ranged with openings through
which the chilled air will pass.
The warm air should be conducted
from the lower to the upper room
by means of fiue. Dampers
should be made in this flue, 80 that
the circulation of the warm and
cold air can be controlled. All of
the walls, foundation and ceiling of
the storage house must be construct
ed so that as little heat as possible
will pass through them. This is
the main principle of the whole
work. Various kinds of walls are
made, but the best is probably
the one that has chamber of dead
air between. Many storage houses
are now constructed and filled with
sawdust, charcoal, tanbark, and
other non-conducting materials,
but these cost more, and do not an
swer as we'll as a wall which con-
tains dead air spaces. The air
spaces are open to the outer air
when the air is dry, but hampers
shut them when the air is humid
or charged with moisture. When
these hampers are closed the ice
melts very slowly, even on the hot
test day. The lumber for the walls
should be matched, and the stud
ding lined with paper The space
between the outer and inner walls
should be from 6 to 10 inches.
A storage house arranged in this
way can have a freezing tempera-
ture when needed, and poultry
dressed and frozen in such a room
gives excellent results in warm
weather. To further increase the
cold of the room sheet-iron tanks
are placed in the room below, and
then packed with broken ice and
salt. They are then closed, and the
cold radiating from them directly
into the room reduces the tempera-
ture quickly to the freezing point.
The tank should be supplied with a
pipe to carry off the water. In some
instances these radiating tanks do
the work of chilling poultry and
frnit better than a regular storage
room. The ice is kept in an ice
house near by, and is regularly
taken out to fill the tank. A tank
6 feet high and 6 feet long and 8
wide will chill the floor of an or
binary storage room to the freezing
point in a short time. Altogether,
the ease with which the farmer can