Show A AND al ty 14 pa na 1 lukl CLEVERLY BUILT ICE BOX refrigerator which keeps milk butter and other perishable goods cool without ice aby by MILLER PURVIS while I 1 was in california this summer I 1 saw almost everywhere coolers or refrigerators wilch wore were used to keep milk sweet butter him firm and to cool water all this being done without the use of ice I 1 made one of these coolers myself and most of those I 1 saw raw were made by local carpenters although they are kept on sale in some of the towns I 1 am riot not an expert with tools and in the remote place where I 1 happened to be tools were scarce but with only a square saw and hatchet I 1 made the cooler and it worked just as well as any other one I 1 over ever saw we kept butter perfectly firm in it and fresh rn meat at cool and sweet all so aorta arts of stowed fruit was kept in it much longer than it would have kept outside as the temperature was above degrees for weeks at a time and went as high as more than once the sketch shows the cooler with she he front curtain back to show the shelves helves we would put glass fruit cans full of f iter in this cooler and it was kept jol and refreshing and probably much more wholesome whole soma for drinking purposes than it would have been had it been iced to make one of these coolers a skeleton frame made of inch posts joined by inch strips Is sot set up I 1 k n r cooler without ice in this shelves are put at coave convenient n tent distances apart and tho the four sides aides are ca vered covered with burlap I 1 used barley sacks backs for this purpose the cooler I 1 made was ahr tareo eq feet square ordinarily a water box eight or ten inches deep the size of the top Is in made and set on the top of the frame around the box near the bottom a row of gimlet holes is bored and these thes are fitted with plugs the box Is filled with water and the plugs in the holes are loosened until the water seeps out just enough to run down through the burlap on the sides and keep heep it wet all the time the burlap on tho the front side Is fastened to only one post the top and the other side being kept in I 1 place by rings along the edge which are slipped over nalla nails partly driven in this constitutes the door through which access Is gained to the inside of the cooler once in a while I 1 saw one with a skeleton door over which the burlap was stretched as screen wire would be over a screen door but this was considered rather elaborate for most people |