Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-12-23
COLD STORAGE ROOM.
Directions For Building a Dairy or Cream
erv Refrigerator.

Directions For Building Dairy or Cream
cry Refrigerator.
| have built refrigerating rooms for
butchers who want room cold, bat dry,
and they are perfect success, and in
my many creamery and dairy operations
I have found them as good as can be de-
vised. Their several good points are:
First. The material is to be found
in any lumber yard.
Second - Any good carpenter can
build them.
Third. They can be built of any
size, from kitchen chest to a large
room for storing butter or working it in.
Fourth. 1.-The packages of butter will
not take mold, but keep bright and dry.
Fifth. They are very economical of
ice.
Sixth. They are more readily clean
ed than any have ever seen.
In 1892 / put a small room in a
South Dakota creamery that would
hold 900 pounds of butter The cream
cry room was SO small that the refriger-
ator stood only four feet from boiler-a
very trying position-butfo for all of that
the temperature was at AZ degrees. We
are using chest that built last spring
that holds 400 pounds ofaone pound
prints and 800 pounds of ice. ! have Of
ten weighed the drip. and when room
was up to 90 or 100 degrees the waste
was but one pound per hour. This cool
er cost just SILL 5 for material, about
the cost of freight for a refrigerator
from Chicago.
will give as brief description of
manner of making as possible. For a
room of any size make bottom first OF
4 or 8 inch flooring. To start, cut
flooring enough for first course-the
width and length the room is to be-.
Take by inch strips, lay them down
IS inches apart, and on them lay two
thicknesses of best odorless building
paper, and on these strips nail the floor
ing. Turn the floor over, SO naked strips
will be uppermost (the strips are three
inches shorter all round than the floor
ing). Now put on two more thieknesses
of paper and lay ON flooring flush with
strips. Cut another set of strips three
inches shorter than the floor you now
have. Lay on these two more thickness
es of paper and put on last course OF
flooring.
You now have two perfect dead ali
spaces, which is better nonconducto1
than any filling and will always be
sweet. Inside of room sides are put on
the same as bottom, except at the COR
ners, where as a matter of precaution
always put an extra thickness of paper
as / add the flooring In height of build
ing leave enough room overhead for ice
chamber q feet inches is about
right. Now comes the principal feature
of the room-namely, the ice racks.
Four inches below where the foot
inch line is from ceiling of cooler nail
securely 2 by scantling on long way
of cooler, both sides alike. On these
rest 2 by As two inches apart. These
are the floor of ice chamber
The ice pans, or drip catchers, are
made Of 2 by pine of good quality,
thus: Gouge out one side like trough,
full width of 2 by 6 and l u inches deeI
in middle, turn by over and take of
corners and plane, SO the 2 by 6 will be
gradual fall from center to edge.
These troughs run same way as ice rack.
Before placing them have timer make
strong zinc or galvanized trough two
inches wide, one side strengthened by g
wire turned in edge, other side straight
At one end have an outlet pipe soldereC
on, long enough to go through cooler
and project an inch or more. Ii desired
an air trap is put on end. This trough
runs long way Of room below ice rack
one end nailed twoor three inches lower
| than other to secure quick drainage. Or
opposite side of room from gutter secure
by to lay first course of driI
boards, convex side up and three inches
apart. These drip boards rest just ovel
drain. Four inches is room enough. Di
rectly under the inch space anC
| two or three inches lower down plac'
concave 2 by 6's, one end resting OF
drain and other end little higher. You
now have an open pan, can see ice every
six inches. but no water can drop OF
floor. The drip boards are not fastened
but can be taken down and washed
readily. The rack for ice is not fastened
but can be removed at any time. Maxi
doors on same plan as sides and bottom
This room, built as above, will hold thu
same degree of temperature at all time
and is very inexpensive. Outside can b.
finished with cornice and panel work i
one so desires. Put on two or three coat!
of paint anyway. Buff Jersey in Ho
| ards Dairyman.