The Dolores star., 1919-02-14
LAST CALL FOR
ICE HARVESTING
Fairly Safe Storage May Be Sc
cured in Cellar, or Some 9th
er Convenient Nook.
LIBERAL USE OF SAWDUsT
Many Other Advantages Besides Keep
ing Milk Cool During Heated Term
There Appears to Be No
Justification for Neglect.

Probably the greatest advantage
rom having farm ice house properly
lied is that the milk may always be
ept cool. But there are a score of
lhcr advantages not to be ignored.
nnc Of them pertain to things that
GiS he claSSed aS-Summer luXurieS?
'ltu, summer nece SsitieS. Ice cream,
ed tea, lemonade, buttermilk, iced
ratermeions, iced cantaloupes, iced
ruitS-every one of them an item in
he summer diet that can be regarded
rs contributions to the health. happi-
ness and prosperity of the family. Un-
less there is natural ice in the farm
ice house they are rarely to be had.
Even if the head of the family is
perfectly willing to bear the expense
Of buying artificial ice, the time is
sure to cOme-in most cases, it comes
frequently-when there is not time to
get the ice out from town. times when
everybody is busy in the harvest or
hny field and when the familiar but dis
heartening plea of ''let it wait till to-
morrow" is heard and must be heed
ed.
Ice Relieves Suffering.
Indeed, it can be needed with some
degree of patience when the ice would
mean only more palatable dessert
for dinner. But, on one of those hot
harvest, days. one of the men is
brought in overheated from the field,
,r one of the children becomes sud
lenly i'll of something that an ice
)nck would 20 Il long way toward re-
'icving. Such things seem to occur
just ai those times when the icebox
is cmpty--and the need is so urgent
that there is no time for going to town
for ice. Unnecessary suffering is the
inevitable result-inevitable except
when there is on the farm an ice house
filed from the pond or stream during
the winter.
The harvesting of ice is so simple !
n matter that there appears no justi- /,
live in natural ice regions. Yet, the /.
fact remains that many such do neg |
lect it.. Even for those who have not |
n regularly constructed ice house, there |
are possibilities. Ice may be stored |
and kept with a fair degree of success !
in the cellar, corner of the wood !
shed, in any one of score of hooks. !
to be found about every farmstead. !
Such storage places cannot be recon- !
for permanent use. They en-
tnil II much heavier loss by melting |
than do properly constructed houses. |
But, with the proper use of sawdust, !
shavings or other cheap |
insulatOr, they can be made to keep
ice through the summer. The United
States department of agriculture
goes so far as to say that, where ice
Is abundant and the cost of gather
Ing 1t low, storage in makeshift places
may be more economical than the |
building of scientifically constructed /
houses. and does not hesitate to recon-
mend 1t as an expedient to serve until
there Is time for the construction of |
the right sort of house.
Thick Cakes Not Essential.
OF course, If the ice Is to be avail
able for next summer, there is no time
for constructing houses now. This is
nearly the last call for filling the
houses already bui!t-and for making
'9e of such expedlents as ure possible