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Show ICE HOUSES. ' Ice is a luxury, says the Ohic Farmer, rarely indulged in hy a large majority of larmers, and yet they can have it in abundance at small cost, It requires no extensive ctrucUre' nd ine labor of securing the crop i compa atively trfflmg. A house ten lett square and U-n high, is largn enough to hold a -ummer's supply for an ordinary family. It may be built in the roughest manner, aDd n) u,e cheapest material. Provide for drainage without admitting air at the vitrom, lay rat scantling, or any. thing of tne kind, close to -ether on the ground, fill the spaeeo between ith aduft, and cover over the iail an inch deep. Cut the b'rK-k of ice all the same siae, so they will pa-k nicely. Pack them in clo-ely as possible, pos-sible, leaving a tpare all around between the ice and walls nt trie houae nfnntloj. , fi . , , ' ""ecu incur which must be filled with sawdust well packed. As the ice pile is buin up, cav.ties caus.d by broken an I irregular Mocks, should be filltd with pounded ice. After the pile is built up eight feet high, cover over the i.-p with sawduct about a f,ot deep and the work is done. The supply can be made lo hut much longer by pouring water on the pile after it ban been built up and freezing the whole into a solid mass. A coldnight must be ohosen lor t'nii work. unk up earth all around t outside, and pack it well, and the roof should project pro-ject beyond the embankment, to prevent pre-vent washing it away. The house may have a door above and below in the north gble end, for convenience ' A pond or oOO square feet surface i& tmply sufficient ti till euch an house and almost any farmer tin provide uch a pond, when he is detain from natural iourcjs. These arc all the brectiona neceit-ary f r building an ico housp, unless yon &r arihto cratic. In that cuse expend jttst a much money on vour ice us you pleaae, but your ice will keep no bet ut imd will not be a whit colder than Unit u ki n from the clieaner lum-n wi -ni ot caution is neceary to thofe who are not accustomed lo taking ice out of an hous-e in summer, lie an-Ml to covtr up lh. ice again with the sawdust, and k- p tiro houce ltrl, Cirelfsnewt a, it witate much :uore tlian is consum .i |