Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1914-06-19


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 well-regulated farm. Such re-
frigerator can be constructed in q
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 a
site should be exercised as in choos-
ing the location of an icehouse. The
essential feature is a wellinsulated
room containing an ice rack, drip pan
and drain.
A refrigerator of the following d.
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 6 feet
high covering a floor space 8 by 10
feet will provide space 6 by by 8
for the storage Of products.
Such an arrangement will require
about 100 tons of ice during the year,
but 1t can be used to hold eggs and
h11tf I1n nf oh do ~
production. A supply of fresh meat
can be kept by such means In locali
ties where distributing wagons are not
run, and even where a 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 so
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 ~ inches longer and wider than
the other and 6 inches deeper. If the
inner box is 2 feet wide, 2 feet deep
and feet long, the outer box should
be feet wide, 4 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 drip pipe in the
bottom near one end and a metal graf
Ing IL inches from that end, so as to
make a cage in which to store block
Of ice.
A layer of six inches OF cork dust
or white pine shavings should be
placed in the bottom of the larger box
after it has been lined with water
proof building paper. Place the
smaller box on the layer of insulation,
making provision for the drain, aud
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. Then
hinge thick. well-insulated cover to
the outer box. which should At tightly
and be large enough to cover the en-
tire top of the chest. The joints can
be made tight by weather strips and
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-
iuction of the raw material and the
manufacturing of it into a finished
product are very closely associated.
The one would be an impossibility
without the other as the amount and
quality OF the raw material furnished
oy the producer affects the economic
efficiency of the manufacturing estab-
ishment, while the producer of the
Jaw material depends upon the manu-
acturer for q market for his product.
The manufacturer as an individual is
he more dependent because Of the
act that the factory must have the
producer OF raw material in order to
sxist. The producer is more at liberty
% change his line than is the manu-
acturer, hence while there is close
nterdependence between the producer
md the manufacturer. the former is
he more Independent, and II is there
ore expedient that the manufacturer
lttempt In every way possible to as
list him in producing the raw material
more intelligently and economically.