Beaver Press | 1924-01-18 | Page 6 | Store Abundant Supply of Ice for next Summer

store abundant supply of ice for next neit summer A in those sections of the country where natural ice can be harvested every dairyman should make preparations to store an abundant supply for next summer ice Is 3 extremely desirable in fact almost necessary in the production and marketing of high quality milk ord and cream proper cooling ind and cold storage on the farm Is the greatest single factor influencing the bacterial content of milk between the time it leaves the cow and the tam atmo it reaches the consumer at least 1 tons of ice fee per cow should be stored this will cool the milk allow for melta gc and provide n margin for household uses ice ponds should be built if no river or take lake Is available water used for i ice making should d be of unquestioned purity old ice ponds should be cleared of vegetable matter nud and refuse in preparation for the coming coining harvest farmers Fan ners bulletin 1078 deals harvesting ond storing lepon the farm it can tie be secured by writing the dairy division united states department of agriculture washington