The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-08-04
HoME-M MADE REFRIGER.A rop.

a Very Valuable one Can Be Madr AZ
Little or No Cost ~
written for The Post.
The following explains low all can baye
u natural refrigerator at no cost. by which
You cum have cool water. milk, cream.
n ,s.,S nr !tcay,mns e.se you want to keep
cool Iho farmer a'ad dairyman can mako
twice as much b'ttcr and sell IL for az
much again per pound
on"rnlns Is Tot so hard and long for
N'i Vncam ~ Mt the right temperature
ana II "lll ',ccp butter hard ana fresh
'nr hottest days of summer.
ih"h YOU have cool sweet milk at every
lhtii, ard water M cool as II at tho bot
tom OF tm coolest springs or wells.
now for the explanation;
ITO cooler liz run by the combination
two natural laws. evaporation and
! Capillary attraction.
Wrap Jug OF water up with wet
cloth and hans Il up In tho ar and shade
In tho strongest current of air and Wet
the cloth around II every few minutes,
and IN a short time tho water viii, be cool.
Go In bathing with some garment about
water you feel cool and chilly untll tho
garments nic dry
All old Southern ladies' understand tho
wet cloth systom." but they do not know
how 10 keep 1t wet night aud day, and
here IA their, trouble.
II Is dope by the law OF capillary at
traction, Take wet towel or GOTTEN
cloth ard put one end Of 81 into n bowl or
full pitcher OF water. Let onc end OF
he towel reach to tho bottom CT thu pitt
cher and the other below the bottom cf
the pitcher ON the outside. and all the
water win run out of the pitcher through
the towel slowly and leecp the towel wet
Now for the dairy or coolies. Every
house has It and its occupants do not
know II. and u costs nothing.
Take common wash tub or q large
bnoket-say tub-and put II up on
table or something similar In the center
OF the table IN the shade. wheri the south
breczcs will blow upon It..
Now set gallon Jars all around the tub.
or AZ many as you wnnt, several inches
apart. and ouch jar nm inch or no from
the Tub. Turn II plato upside down on
each jar for I'd. Now take. oican flour
sack aud draw the mouth of Il over 4 Jar
of milk Then throw the bottom OF tho
sack over into the water In the tub, Tho
moulh Of thu, sack f. wet around the Jar.
drawn over by capillary attraction.
You have now the Idea. and here arc
the particulars.
Get two sticks Of wood. both two inches
iorser ina" , ,ns du ,ho or the eo'" an o
II half Wide. Lay them down edeeways
parallel with each other. Thou get about
long as hs seRs % w ysf Ths .tsSs
the wires ' on '' tho st t''' wires about ono
inch apart. Get q round pad OF ci,th two
tom OF the jars and two or three thick
nesses of cloth Lay the pad on the wires
md set line jar on the pad, AR WIN pas,
ard the sack VIII keep the pad wet.
rse only gallon lars. The hour sack. or
hctter slip made OF cotton flannel or
somoth.ng similar, must be made so II Will
~ the jar loosely to get off and on easily,
yet touch The sides OF the vessel when
wet. Get for the nd of the tub sugar
ariel I'D or make something similar two
lncfea In diameter less than diameter OF
the top OF the tub. Drive three long nails
distant from each other In tho
edlse OF the lid. letting the nahs stick out
from the edge of the I'D an Inch and
half from the lid and bend over the edge
Of tho tub, 20 the lid win not rest upon
the cloth sack.
Get an oil cloth cover for the table top
and place or tack a small stick half an
Inch thick and wire ON the edge OF tho
table under the oil cloth. The waste
water viii run on the oil cloth. Raise
one end OF the table "A little and the water
VIII run to one corner OF the table. under
which CORNER place a bucket to eaten the
lrlppngs. La the bottom of the tub be
about four inches above the tops OF tho
lars. 30 this by making "A thrcc-legged
stool with short legs for the tub, 80 air
'nn pass under tn. trb TO the jars on tho
opposite side. MIX must not BE- shaken.
IA keeps milk cool and sweet twonty-four
hours and you work with your milk.
,ream and butter as you do In winter.
cut this out and send IL to Your friends
~ nsighbors, for 1t Is simply invaluable.
y ours for good. j. J. Smith.
Huntsville. Texas, July 0. 1896.