New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1919-02-14
LAST CALL.F0R
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
from having a farm ice house properly
filled is that the milk may always be
kept cool. But there are q score Of
other advantages not to be ignored.
Some of them pertain to things that
may be classed as-summer luxuries?
no, summer necessities. Ice cream,
iced tea, lemonade. buttermilk, iced
watermelons, iced cantalOupes, iced
~fruits-every one of them an item In
the summer diet that can be regarded
as contributions to the health, happi-
ness and prosperity Of the family. I'm
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-ln most cases, 1t 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
h%eartenlng plea Of "let 1t wait till to-
morrow Is heard and must be heed
ed.
Ice Relieves Suffering.
Indeed, 1t can be needed with some
degree Of patience when the ice would
mean only a more palatable dessert
for dinner. But, or one of those hot
harvest days. one of the men is
brought in Overheated from the field,
Or one Of the children becomes sud-
denly Ill Of something that ar ice
pack would go a long way toward re-
lleving. Such things seem to occur
just at those times when the icebOx
is empty-and the need is SC urgent
that there is no time for going to town
for ice. Unnecessary suffering Is the
inevitable result-inevitable except
when there Is OF the farm an ice house
filed from the pond or stream during
the winter.
The harvesting of ice is so simple
a matter that there appears no justi-
ficatiOn for its neglect by those who
live in natural ice regions. Yet. the
fact remains that many such do neg
lect 1t. Even for those who have not
q regularly constructed ice house, there
are possibilities. Ice may be stored
and kept with a fair degree of success
In the cellar, a cOrner Of the wood
shed, in any one Of a score of hooks,
to be found about every farmstead.
Such storage places cannot be recon-
mended for permanent use. They en-
tail a much heavier loss by melting
than dc properly constructed houses.
But, with the proper use of sawdust,
p%laning-mill shavings or other cheap
insulatOr, they can be made to keep
ice through the summer. The United
States department Of agriculture
goes 80 far as to say that, where ice
il abundant and the cost of gather
ing It 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 uptil
there is time for the construction Of
the right sort of house.
Thick Cakes Not Essential.
OF course, II 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 built-and for making
use Of such expedients as are possible