St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-12-29
FARMER AND PLANTER,
STORING ICE ON THE FARM.
Some Seas0nable SuExestlons A
View Of the Approach Of the
Ice.Farmlng Period.

1t is pretty generally conceded b,
those who hare tried it that ice is 4
good investment on the farm. This is
especially true on a farm where cows
are kept, and there are but compare
tiTely few farms where they are not
kept.
In the matter of saving work in the
house, ice and refrigerator or ice
box. or q refrigerator and creamery
combined, much work is saved to the
housewife by doing away with run
ming up and down the cellar stairs,
There is also great saving in eat
ables. which, in many instances. would
otherwise spoil. Then again. how mach
nicer many articles of food aud drink
are when kept ice cold. A CORE
spondent of an eastern agricultural
paper reports his experience in stor-
ing ice outdoors as follows: frTE
Some years ago it occurred to me
to stack little ice out doors to save
the trouble of taking it from the, ice
house. The stack was made on the
north side of a building. In the expec-
tation that warm weather would
quickly melt it, but little was put
up. 1t kept surprisingly. anil there
after large quantities we're stacked
yearly. Until for seevral years past
the ou.-of-doors stack has furnished
ice for creamery and household until
about September l. There being a
scarcity of ice this year had to use
an inferior quality four or five inches
thick. The stack was about thirty
feet square and four feet high. 1t
has furnished ice to cool about 800
quarts of milk per day, in creamery,
besides refrigerator in house. My
method is to spread few inches. of
sharings Oh the ground for the ice to
rest en-, stack the ice and cover with
sEavings to depth of about foot.
1 have found u lowstack best, rs there
seems to be comparatively little melt
ed from top to bottom; but il an
opening through the side covering let's
the air in it will cut away very fast.
and the higher the stack is the more
difficult in keeping the sides covered.
have used the same shavings year,
after year. l doubt whether it is inn
portland to have the stack in shade; ]
The siavings getting moisture from
rain snd from >the ice, evaporation
Keeps down the temperature"
Another writes: NO expensive
structure is needed for an ice house.
.Eough when it IS an object to have
40 wasting away j. shculi be made
.ighter Than where this does not mat
CT much. Slabs from the saw mill
10 very nicely for the root. and the
;idcs may also be of rough boards.
Where desired the ice house may be
me corner of the woodshed parti-
Toned off, in which ice will keep
quite as well US in more costly
structure. Even stacking is often
escorted to by laying down rails for
floor, on which to stack the blocks |
Cover heavily with some |
material which is non-conducting,
uch rs straw, hay, etc, finishing the |
OPP so as to shed rain, bracing the |
ICES with boards and rails to keep
he covering in position. Care must be |
aiken in getting 1T the ice, always |
o open at same place and cover up
thoroughly, or some hot day will turn
to water. In putting in the ice, no
latter where it may be, always sur
cund it with non--condacting ma
erial like sawdust." f&s
The ice house question can be
l.mmcd up as follows: Any cheap
tructure with good drainage md no
below; good ventilation
hove; proper space between ice and
dies. filled with ron-conducting ma
erial. The bugbear of expense need
eter no one from storing ice.
BY providing proper bottom ice
in be piled on it, and building put
yer i. Iater.-F. W. Moseiey, in Farm
rs Home Journal.
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