The L'Anse sentinel., 1919-02-28
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
from having farm ice house properly
filled is that the milk may always be
kept cool. But there are 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. Un-
less there is natural ice in the farm
fee 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, 1t comes
frequently-when there is not time to
get the Ice out from town, times when
everybody is busy in the harvest or
nay field and when the familiar but dis
heartening 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 palntable dessert
for dinner. But, on one of those hot
harvest days, one Of the men Is
brought In overheated from the field.
- - 30 <ho obiIdrap bocomae cub-
denly Ill of something that an Ice
pack would 60 long way toward re-
lieving. Such things seem to occur
tust at 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-inevitable except
when there is on the farm an ice house
filled 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
a 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 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 do properly constructed houses.
But. with the proper use Of sawdust,
planning mill 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 It low, storage In makeshift places
may be more economical than the
building Of scientifically constructed
houses, and does not hesitate to recon-
mend II as an expedient to serve until
there Is time for the construction OF
the right sort Of house. M
Thick Cakes Not EssentiaI.
OF, course, II the ice is to be ayail-
able for next summer. there is no time
for constructing houses now. This is
nearly the last coll for filing the
houses already built--and for making
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