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Show MILK COOLER C," CONCRETE One Shown In lllustroticn Is Easily Constructed and Will Repay Cost In One Season, The Illustration shows a milk coolet that la very easily constructed by anyone and will repay its cost many times over In a season's use. A box form Is constructed of tto size you wish the outside of the cooler to be; the Inside Is made In the same manner man-ner only about eight inches smaller so as to allow for a four-Inch wall to the tank or cooler on all sides, says the Farm ITess. The concrete Is mixed, one psrt Portland cement and flvt parts of sand and gravel, and the bot- '.'V. f '. Lj 'y;:. lV A Concrete Milk Cooler. torn of cooler laid first; this may bfc three and onehalf or four Inches thick, as you desire; the box form for the inside is then set upon this floor or bottom at an equal distance from the outside form on all four tides, and tho concrete for the walls placed and tamped down. At one end the wall is slightly lower in center to provide for an overflow, as shown. The tank should be high enough so that when filled with water It will be within two or three Inches of the top of milk can, and as the water Is constantly changing, chang-ing, the milk can be cooled in the shortest possible time; It may also b built slightly larger to allow for Ice to be packed around the milk cans, when it is desired to hasten the cool Ing process. |