Show tons of ice wasted park city poured tons of melted ice down the drain pipes ol of its refrigerators during the last ye year ar without its housewives getting any good from it this amazing figure arrived at by the leonard institute of food preservation Is the annual ice waste in park city due 1 to faulty refrigeration it is based on a survey of ice in rochester N Y showing a per capita waste of pounds of ice the american public Is literally poring water into a sieve the water being in the form of ice and the sieve being the leaky refrigerator that does not keep out hot air the average family should use usa about pounds ot of ice a year it if the brator la Is well insulated and the doors doore fit tightly according to food specialists this provides for keeping the ice chamber well filled in winter as well as summer although tho the average family uses only halt half this amount the survey at rochester c bester a typical american city showed she wre d that an alarming portion ot of the ice purchased la Is wasted each year in the average home for the nation this involves a loss ot of millions of 0 dollars in ice alone besides the even greater loss in spoiled food caused by the poor refrigeration er era tion atlon purchasers of refrigerators too often consider price alone says food preservation experts like an automobile the refrigerator should be purchased on performance for mance as well as appearance the use of modern modem all steel refrigerators with approved insulation would go far toward doing away with this heavy loss they state in selecting a refrigerator one with neither the minimum or maximum ice should be chosen according to the leonard institute the refrigerator that con consumes the most ice la Is naturally too costly to keep filled and will not maintain n the desired temperature ot of 60 50 degrees or r less while the one that consumes the the least ice probably has fault faulty Y circulation and will not do its job 0 of f keeping th the e food in perfect state of preservation A reasonable rate of ice me it Is essential to kee keeping ping food good the ice should never be covered with a blanket or paper to retard its melting |