The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1913-01-02
Pct VI tee

is no. ssIya luxury. but is often .
rcc-srty. aad ro' sidering the fact
that th. cost is rNaiEa'. there is no
rcas" .shy all saould not have a good
Nppnty. VITA very little extra trouble
And eg,'euse. the ice house can be so
Arranged thit 1t vii! accommodate the
dairy 1~oic-ts. vegetables. fruits. etc. :.
t,.~srs ,:ie war; months.
In Ne cyeut 'h,t a archmar has no
ice house sol ,l a 30. convenient for
bin ta huh. a.-. tn. following sug-
Ke~tio"s by Prof. Larsen of the
ssi,h Dakota State College would en-
able ham 20 provide supply of ice
without a special house:
"Iwring the last year. the writer
has frozen and stored ice in a pit in the
ground. This method is very salts
factory for keeping lee on the farm.
There is no reason why every farmer
should not have ice for use on the
farm during the summer months.
Practically. every farmer has well,
aud most have power of some kind for
pumping water.
The pit should not be dug over
about four feet into the gound. If it
is dug too deep, it takes too long to
freeze the water The pit should be
dug in the fall, and the sides exposed
to forst. until the bottom and sides
freeze solid.
when the bottom and sides are thor
oughly frozen. then allow small
stream of water to run into the pit.
Too much water should not be be let
in at first: as it freezes with difficult
ties near the bottom. Tim let little
water run in gradually, and allow the
ice to freeze solid as fast as the water
is let into the pit. This freezing may
be Continued above the ground by put
ting boards aronnd the the top of the
pit. All crevices and openings can be
easily filled up with sIush ice. This
cake of ice may be frozen above the
ground. even several feet, by this me-
thod. 1t freezes much quicker on the
top of the ground than below the sur
face of the ground. --:~Ns+~'
1.-THE writer used an ordinary iron
pipe at first for conducting the water
into the pit In extreme cold days,
however, the pipes would freeze solid.
The best conveyors If water were
trough. made from lx4' boards. nailed
together in the same manner as is
done wher hog troughs are made. Ii
the troughs are given a sufficient
slant, no difficulties will be experience
ed in getting the water into the pit.
when this is frozen into one solid
chunk OF ice, it should be covered with
plenty of flax straw. Moisten the
straw little so it will pack well on top
of the ice. As soon as the weather
gets warm. the ground will thaw some
Of the ice. As soon as there is about
six inches cavity between the..sides Of
the pit and 1.-THE ice, then pack this
opening with fine flax straw. --::This
prevents or at least retards the thaw
ing of the ice on sides and causes it to
keep much better.
Remove the ice by using the ice
saw Saw it perpendicularly on all the
sides of the chunk of ice wished for use
By means of crowbar or pick. the
chunk readily splits off horizontally.
1.-The ice could be frozen into layers
by putting tar paper in between. In
order to get the complete separation,
it is necessary to lay strips of tar pa
per together, so that it will be water
tight, Lay this sheet of solid tar paper
on top of the ice, then slowly run on a
very thin layer of water, SC that it
freezes almost at once. AS Many hor-
izortal divisions as desired can be
made.
''rhis method of keeping ice is cheap
and practical The writer. of couase,
prefers an ice house. But it is so eX.
pensive that many farmers refrain from
having ice on this account. BY this
other method the cost is very slight
Ice is very useful on the farm during
the SIMMER. Every dairy farmer
shouldhave ice so he can cool his milk
and cream.
The writer uses about 100 tol50 pounds
of ice every day for the milk cooling
tank
''in addition. the ice can be stored
for cooling the house refrigerator.
Also for making ice cream and other
frozen aainties on the farm. Ranch
and Range.