Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-06-05

prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture
The construction of farm refriger-
ator large enough to meet the re-
quirements Of well-equipped farm for
the storage of eggs, butter and fresh
meat and for chilling or preceding
fruits in small quantities is essential
to a well-regulated farm. Such re-
frigerator can be constructed In a
cellar, in the lean-to of an icehouse,
or in any farm building where con-
venient and suitable protection can be
provided. If none of these alterna-
tives is possible, the refrigerator may
be constructed as an independent
building. If built as a separate struc-
ture, the same care in the choice of
site should be exercised as in choos-
ing the location of an icehouse. The
essential feature is a well-insulated
room containing an ice rack, drip pan
and drain.
A refrigerator Of the following di-
mansions will meet the ordinary re-
quirement of the farm for the storage
OF butter, eggs and meats for tempo
rary periods: A box with walls feet
high covering a floor space 8 by 10
feet will provide space by G. by 8
for the storage of products.
Such an arrangement will require
about 100 tons of ice during the year,
but it can be used to hold eggs and
butter over the season of abundant
production. A supply of fresh meat
can be kept by such means in locali-
ties where distributing wagons are not
run, and even where local supply is
available the producer can arrange to
supply his table at wholesale rather
than retail prices by killing his own
sheep, pigs or veal. Instances are
known where an equipment of this
sort has paid for itself in a single
season through the advance secured
by holding the egg output for only GO
days. Dealers purchase and store
eggs while they are most abundant
and cheapest and dispose Of them dur
ing the season of less abundant pro-
duction at an advanced price. A we'll
constructed and well-handled refrig-
orator of this kind on the farm will
enable the producer to keep this profit
at home.
The Construction of an Ice Chest.
Where less expensive cooler is de.
sired an ice chest will be found to
serve a useful purpose. Such chest
can be made from two packing boxes
one II inches longer and wider than
the other and inches deeper. If the
inner box is 2 feet wide, 2 feet deep
and 3 feet long, the outer box should
be 3 feet wide, feet long and 80
inches deep. The inner box, which
should be made of matched white pine
or cypress, should be lined with zinc
and provided with a drip pipe in the
bottom near one end and metal graf
ing IL inches from that end, SO as to
make cage in which to store a block
Of ice.
A layer of six inches of cork dust
or white pine shavings should be
placed in the bottom of the larger boz
after it has been lined with water
proof building paper. Place the
amaller box on the layer of insulation
making provision for the drain, and
then pack the same insulating ma
terial tightly in the space between the
outer and the inner box. Fit board
over the packing between the boxes
SO as to cover the edges of both. Their
hinge a thick, wellinsulated cover tt
the outer box, which should fit tightly
and be large enough to cover the en-
tire top of the chest. The joints car
be made tight by weather strips ant
felt The cover should be provided
with counter weight and good ice
chest hasp to hold it In place.
Creamery and Farmer as Business
Associates.
In any line of manufacture the pro
duction of the raw material and tn,
I manufacturing of it into a finished
product are very closely associated
The one would be an impossibilit,
without the other, as the amount ant
quality of the raw material furnished
by the producer affects the economi
efficiency of the manufacturing estab
lishment, while the producer of til,