Show APPARATUS FOR MAKING ICE every farmer can have his his own ice plant at a cost of from 13 to 20 if he will use the apparatus described in a new bulletin just issued by D J D walters professor of architecture in the kansas agricultural college the ice plant is made of galvanized iron and consists of a double tank with an inner tank 10 feet long 2 feet wide and 12 inches deep the top of the tank should be slightly wider than the bottom the inner tank should be divided into six compartments b by Y means of galvanized iron strips this double tank should be placed near an outdoor pump where the compartments can be easily filled with water being exposed on all sides the water will freeze in from one to three hours A bucket full of hot water poured into the space beewen the two tanks will loosen the cakes so that they may be removed one freezing will give five cakes of ice each weighing pounds fourteen freez ings will yield four tons of pure ice or enough to 6 last an average family for a year the cakes of ice can be packed away in sawdust in the cellar as they are frozen |