Show Make Plans for Winter Harvest During the Warm Wann Weather Great Quantities of Milk Spoil for Lack of Ice by the United te Department of Agriculture Fall FuJI Is the time of ot harvest but winter winter win win- ter Is coming and then there will be opportunity for tor another harvest Inthe In Inthe Inthe the ice lee on ponds and streams Every summer gummer great quantities of ot ml milk k are high temperatures temperatures tem tern spoiled or so 50 impaired by that the owners owners arc are forced to accept smaller prices on account of low-grade low products This milk might be saved by the use of Ice Ice Is so useful that It Is made artificially ar aI nr- nr for consumption In cities Farmers too often do without It when they might Just as well have bave It at no expense except that of labor at a time of year when work Is commonly slack provided there Is an nn Ice house honse ready If U there is no Ice house one can be built at moderate expense Where plenty of or ice is used are able to deliver practically all of their product sweet though some of ot It travels several hundred miles to market Other foods besides milk often otten spoil spall In hot weather especially meats Many farm families do without without with with- without out fresh meat In the summer unless they are nrc near enough to a meat market to buy It In small ties They might Just as well keep several days days' supply In the home Ice Icebox box Ice Cream Is Delicacy Then again Ice cream Is a delicacy which everyone appreciates It u haR nas become an Important article of ot food for city and village people but farmers farmers farm farm- ers era often do without it They might Just as well enjoy Ice cream as anyone anyone anyone any any- one else Ice cream Is not hard to tomake tomake tomake make and the freezer to make It with can be purchased at a a small cost ost But ButIce Butice Ice lee Is Indispensable f When planning to use use a given supply of ot water for Ice says the United States De Department of Agriculture make sure beforehand that the water Is pure Clear th the pend or stream of vegetable matter otherwise it will willbe willbe be frozen In the ice Protect the water f supply from drainage from contaminating contaminating sources such as privies barnyards barn barnyards barnyards yards and refuse heaps Keep the Ice surface clear of snow as It retards retards retards re re- re- re tards freezing Mark 01 off the surface Into cakes of ot the desired size being sure that the lIn lines s form rectangles Cut out a strip of ice the width of the cake desired Force this is strip strip under the surface of the Ice field thus opening a channel to the landing Saw off large cakes and float them to the landing where they may be be cut Into smaller cakes For the average farm the only tools required arc are two saws two pairs of tongs two Ice hooks one pointed bar one straight board for or marking Where cream only is to be cooled allow al- al Jow low at least one-half one ton of Ice per cow For cooling milk allow 1 lJ tons per cow These quantities should be he enough to leave lea a margin for household house house- b hold bold use but It Is better to have too much than too little Whenever ever practicable build the Ice house In the form of a cube Allow 45 cubic feet of space for each ton of ice Best Location Locate the Ice lee house In a shady place lace near the dairy house hom e and there is good natural drainage If It water water water wa wa- wa- wa ter from the melting Ice Is not removed removed removed re re- re- re moved melting will proc proceed ed at a more rapid rate If the house is built bunt on sloping p porous rous ground na natural ural drainage drainage drain drain- age should be sufficient but if It on a aday clay day soil soli artificial drainage should be provided Use plenty of Insulation If saw sawdust or mill shavings are used see that they are dry Commercial Insulation Is Ismore Ismore ismore more efficient and arid durable than either but is more expensive Wooden houses Insulated with sawdust or mill shavIngs shavings ings lags should be ventilated Houses Houses' with commercial insulation and a cement finish need no ventilation The bureau of dairying United States Department of Agriculture Washington D. D C. C has further in in- in- in formation about Ice houses and th the use of ice on the dairy farm marm I |