The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-02-13
LAST 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 Besides Keep
Ing Milk Cool During teated Term
There Appears to Be No
justification fer Neglect.

Probably the greatest advantage
from having q farm Ice house properly
filled Is that the milk my always be-
kept cool. But there ure score Of
other advantages not to be ignored.
Some of them pertain To- things that
may be Classed ns--sumlner luxurics
mo, summer necessities. Ice cream,
iced ter. lemonade. huttermilk, iced
watefmelons, 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. Un-
less there IL natural Ice In the farm
Ice house. they are rarely to be had.
Even II the head of the family IL
perfectly willing to hear the expense
of buying artificial Ice. the time is
sure to come-in most cases, II comes
frequently-when there lis not time to
get the ice out from town, times when
everybody Is busy In the harvest or
liny field and when the femilinr but dis
heartening plea Of ''let it wait till to-
morrow" Is heard and must be heed
ed.
Ice Relieves suffering.
Indeed, Ii can he needed with some
degree Of patience when the ice would
mean only more palatabIe dessert
for dinner. But. ON 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 All Ice
pack would 20 long way tOwnrd re-
licving. Such things seem to occur
just ut those times when the icebox
is empty-and the need Is SO urgent
that there Is no time for going to town
for ice. Unnecessary suffering Is the
Inevitable result-ipevitable except
when there is on the farm an Ice house
filled from the pond or stream during
the winter.
The harvesting. of Ice is 30 simple
a matter that there appears no ,justi-
fication for it's neglect by those who
live In natural ice regions. Yet. the
fact remains that many such do neg
lect 1t. Even for thsr,c who have not
II regularly constructed Ice house. there
are possibilities. Ice may be stored
and kept with fair degree of success
In the cellar, a corner of the wood
shed, In any one Of rcOre Of hooks.
to be found about every farmstend.
Such storage places cannot be recon-
mended for permn nent use. They en-
tail much heavier loss by melting
than do properly Constructed houses.
But. with the proper use of sawdust.
planing-mill shavihss or pther cheap
insulntOr. they cat be made to keep
ice through the suu.llof. The United
States department Of agriculture
goes 40 far as to sag that, where tee
is abundant and the tt.st Uf gather
ing 1t low. storage In makeshift limces
may be more economical than the
building Of scientifically Constructed
houses, and d0es hot hesitate I. recon-
mend 1t as an expedient To serve Intii
there is time for the O.lsl. action OF
the right sort Uf house.
Thick Cakes Not Essential.
OF course, II the Ice IL to be avail
able for next summer. there Is no tisie
for constructing houses uUw. This is
nearly the last call tor filling tn.
houses already built-.nd for naakis.k
use Of such sxpedients e are possible