The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-02-27
CALL.FoR
ICE HARVESTING
Fairly Safe Storage May Be Sc
cured in Cellar, or Some 9th
er Convenient Nook.
LIBERAL USE. Of sAWDus1
Many Other Advantages 1esldes Keep
ing Milk Cool During Heated Term
There Appears TO Be No
justification for Neglect.

Probably the greatest advantage
from having q 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?.
--n0, 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. On
less there is natural ice in the farm
ice house, they are rarely to be had.
Even IL 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
hay field and when the familiar but dis
h~eartening plea Of 'let It wait till to-
morrow" is heard and must be heed
ed.
Ice Relieves Suffering.
Indeed, 1t al be needed with some
degree Of patience when the Ice would
mean only a more palatable dessert
for dinner. But, on one Of those hot
harvest days, one Of the men II
brought In overheated from the field.
or one OF the children becomes sud-
denly Ill Of something that an ice
pack would 90 q long way toward re-
lieving. Such things seem to occur
Just at those times when the icebox
is empty--and the need is 50 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
q matter that there appears no justi-
hcation for its neglect BY those who
live In natural icesregions. Yet. the
fact remains that many such do meg
lect 1t. Even for those who have not
q regularly constructed ice house, there
are possibilities. Ice may be stored
and kept with, q fair degree Of success
III the cellar, 4 corner Of the wood
shed. "a any one Of q score Of nooks,
to be found about every farmstead.s
Such storage places cannot be recon-
mended for permanent use They en-
tail 4 much heavier. loss By melting
than 40 properly constructed houses.
But, with the proper use Of saWdust,
planing-imill shayings1 or other cheap,
insas11latpr. they can be made to- keep.
Ice through the summer. The United
States department Of ~agr1cultursel
goes ~ fars 81 to- NV that, where ics1
Ii abundant and the cost of gather.
ine IL low, storasesin makeshift places
may 10 morn economical than the
building of scientifically constructed
houses andhuoes not hesitate q recon-
mend - ~ IN expedient "a serve until
Bthere ~ Hme Tor the construction q
ths right Sottof houae.
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