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Show USE LITTLE ICE IN IRELAND One Plant Takes Care of Large District Dis-trict in Thoroughly Satisfactory Satis-factory Way. So small is the consumption of ice in Ireland that one plant is able to take care of the demands of the entire en-tire south and west of the "Emerald Isle." And its output amounts to only-six only-six tons a day. In addition to this plant there are two breweries, a chilled-meat concern and a butter factory which use ice-making ice-making machinery. The use of ice for domestic purposes is virtually unheard un-heard of, owing to the mild temperatures tempera-tures which prevail naturally throughout through-out the summer months. The highest high-est temperature recorded in County Cork in the last three years was 72.4 degrees. That was in July of 1911. July is the hottest month, with maximum maxi-mum temperatures averaging between sixty and seventy degrees. For the preservation of meat in summer it is customary to use "meat-screens," "meat-screens," or cages, sometimes as elaborate elab-orate as a large refrigerator. These receptacles are fly-proof, and are placed in a cool and drafty place. In these the Irish housewife places her meats, milk, butter and other articles of food, which in this country would have to be kept in a refrigerator. refrigera-tor. A few years ago an "American bar" was opened in Cork, which made a specially advertised feature of Iced drinks. It failed. The only consumption con-sumption of ice is by ice-cream manufacturers and shippers of fish from the western coast to fiyeign countries or to England. The vast majority of meat dealers do not fina it necessary, and it is seldom if ever used in the serving of liquors. |