Show ICE MAKING IN INDIA LET roo me now allude to nn an industry po cullar to tho the cold vi cather cathar w u blob aich except io in small matrone matrons distant from the rail mil iii i fast dy dying mg out rind and that li the of fco when I 1 como come out in 18 j calcutta madras M aas rind and bombay were wholly depend ant on american ice supplied by the tudor lea company and To retailed nt at two angim the iter eer that la ia two tiro pounds of f ire ice brought from america were sold bold la in india fur for ia jda I 1 tho the up country was entirely do de pendent on oil artificial lUU OcIal ion ft blob could only bo be mado made where tho the cold aras really felt in nil all othor other parts parta wo me m mere era obliged to cool our drinkut with a ith sali petro anti and ardain mom comac tc or during daneff tho the hot winds by pine ing the battles before tho the khua kl chub u lattice or swinging thum them in n amlet covered co T wot it straw by these theao appliance a 0 a could c cool call our drinks drinka down don to 03 df creot fabren hoit or by carrying on the cooling it iab fresh supplies of salts n u a could men c en fredro water but tho the process was tedious sell odd a science camo came to our aid aud and sulphuric other aud and am monin maoli tannin camo gradually bradu illy into vogue slid and latterly caw carra a wonderful erfal machine which aich I 1 havo have seen can produce ico ice lit in two mm me nine ia a of 03 cle nees na ith tuu tu great ed ico ice IN ia now nom availably avail ablo in ili districts it could not formerly lie bo bad nl at from I 1 U J to 2 annaa per pel to to the old ts it do entirely on art the production of cold cod by evaporation as AI also on BuOl sulf cical cold and tho the presence of at tho the day daiy neat east wind tile tho out nand nind being fatal to tho the production of 0 ice the amenti 1 Is for tho the process arc to i i I 1 exposed and tree less acua ice fields which aro are partitioned air kofl into four to fire feet square ili hi which two tire to three inches of atrin fire arc laid down 5 myriads of nat flat porous earthen saucers e six eik to eight inches in 3 an ireland unlimited supply of water L aurrey an army of coolie and water camera 5 the lea ico pit pil abel the moat meet important adjunct in the proc easI caa ia very carefully constructed a groat great pit in ia clug and in it rests rest 1 1 I hugo timber cono cone tho the price between it and tho side of the pit being rammed with charcoal chaff or straw as rion oon conductors of heat the cone itself li is lidid almed thickly with coarse felt or bi an kc is anti and thon than a lay la a arof I 1 of in ailing i over all ail a straw let hut with very thick roof and walls walla and a very tory small I 1 entrance co la is constructed ted now for tho the process when ever tho the outside thermometer reads 42 degrees then ico ice con can bo be manufactured by evaporation tion hilt an inch of water in ia poured over night eight into the saucers by water carriere then at ab 2 A M f I 1 a great drum is as lenten beaten at ab tho the pit to sure euro mork mon the coolies co oties hundreds each armed with a with which aich tho the ico ice Is IB skillfully fully turned out of the laucer into an attendant attan dant vessel and well rammed into it ib whon full fail it ft is taken to tho the pit emptied there and again rammed down thus thun all tho the ico ice his has a chauca chance of consolidating b by 1 y anti and in good thousands shousan thou sandi d of pounds weight of ico ice may bo be stared a ac cording to pit room rocial |