The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-12-30
EARN ICE HOUSES

rms is the season to arrange for an
ice house to be filed this winter. ANY
old style of building will do so long as
the root is tight ana roper drainage
is provided says Il cores nde in
the Farm Stock journal.
Ice may be kept in a shed all sum
mer If it is we'll covered with saw .z st.
but it must be packed in sutticient
quantities. as Il small amount of ice
will not keep. An ice house IL feet
square or 12x14 is big enough on the
ground. but is must be sufficiently high
to give head room above the ice and the
ice keeps better if it is from 10 to l.
feet deep.
In building an ice house several i'm
portant details should be carefully con-
sidered. 1t is a good plan to have it
near the kitchen. 1t is no more work
to haul the ice to Il convenient place
for using than it is to take it to some
out OF the way place. then be obliged
to carry the chunks an Unnecessary dis
lance during the summer when every-
body about the place is hard at work.
An ice house with plenty of ice for
ummer use is n great luxury. Many
farmers. however. are much like one of
my old neiEhbors who always intended
to build an ice house next winter" but
he could not fill in hot weather and
when winter finally came again it WAS
cold enough to do without AN ice house.
In this way he went without ice year
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he could not afford a separate building.
but as he had plenty of shed room
he floored n end of a cattle shed with
poles to make drainage then filled it
with ice, put q slab partition around it,
chinked in he cracks with bits of board
and old rails until it would hold saw
dust and had ice to use the greater part
of the summer from this makeshift.
After the ice house is filled it is most
important to keep the ice covered. This
requires some attention during the frs,
warm weather of spring because the ice
Will settle some. no matter how we'll
1t is packed and covered With saw dust.
In settling. cracks are made in the mass
OF damp saw dust and these frequently
extend to the bare ice. Unless they
are filled. considerable loss will follow
in a few days.
Where saMdust is scarce. marsh grass
makes a good substitute. 1t packs
closely when wet, is clean and does
rot rot easily into manure like straw
or nay. 1t is not subject to the same
objection as saw dust in leaving open
cracks. but unless watched and packed
Gown occasionally, the air will get
through 1T perhaps Just as easily.
Inc Kitchen refrigerator may be
made at home. but the manufactured
ones are better lockers. But whether
nome made or factory made it should
be large enough to hold 200 pounds of
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once a week. besides this the temperu-
ture is more ever A big ice chest
pays in another way. it is easier to
get things in and out. there is plenty OF
room and it it is not necessary to shift
Tour or five articles to get the one you
are fater. In plancing the ice box in
the kitchen pui it near the door where
the ice is brought in. or still better.
put the Ice box in the shed just outside
the kitchen door.
a convenient and valuable attach
ment to an ice box is n water reservoir
1t is a bad plan to put ice in drinking
water. but Il water reservoir will keep
water cool enough and it may be turned
from the faucet into 4 glass or water
pitcher at any time. In arranging these
things 1t is Just as easy to have them
right n convenient as to put IN with
any kind Of haphaZard arrangement.