The Raymer enterprise., 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 or sAWDUsI
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
Ice house. they ARE rarely to be had.
Even II 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
hay field and when the familiar but dis
heartening plea Of 'let 1t walt till to-
morrow" Is heard and must be heed
ed.
lee Relieves Suffering.
Indeed, 1t can he needed with some
degree Of patience when the Ice would
mean only a more palatabie dessert
for dinner. But, on one OF those hot
I harvest days, one of the men IL
brought In 0yerheatcd from the field
or one of the children becomes sud
denly III Of something that an Ice
pack would 60 long way toward re-
lieying. Such things seem to occur
just 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 20 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 II. Even for those who have not
- ,larly constructed ice house. there
ScG Possibilities. Ice may be stored
and kept with fair degree of success
In the cellar. a corner OF the wood
shed, Id any one of score Of pooks.
To be found about every farmstcad.
Such storage places fnnn0t be recon-
inended for permanent use. They en-
tnil much heavier loss by melting
than do properly constructed louscs.
But. with the proper use Of sawdist.
planing-mill shavinss or other cheap
insulator. they caG be made to keep
ice through the suinmcr. The United
States department Of agriculture
goes SO far as to say that. where Ice
Is abundant and tile cust Sf gather
ing It low. storage IN makcshft places
may be more economical than the
building Of scientifically Constructed
houses. and does not hesitate to recon-
mend it as an expediebt to serve Until
there Is time for the coast. action Of
tfH right sort of house. -.
Thick Cakes Not Essential.
OF course, II the ice Is 10 be avail
able for next summer. there Is no ti:le
for constructing houses now. This Is.
nfarly the last call for filling the
houses already built--snd for making
use Of such expedients as are possible