Show 1100 d COST OF harvesting AND STORING ICE an ice ce plow with guide gauge Pre by for the th united stale states department ot of agriculture under certain condition conditions natural ice MR may y be cut by the armor tamer at a price aa an low as a one cent tor for a cake ot of pounds making the ice cot cost exclusive of hauling and packing 9 lents a ton the usual price however it has been found ly the dairy division of at the united statis states department of 0 agriculture averages average oi abbat 2 cents a rake cake or IS 19 cent to 11 ton la in some instances the original coat cost of the ice and the packing amount to 9 2 a ton but IQ a these cases the storage houses were at long tons distances from the pond one cubic foot of solid ice weighs about 67 57 pounds considering this weight as the standard and allowing for packing one ton of ice will occupy approximately 40 cubic feet the following able table shows the number of cakes of various required per ton of ke size silo of cake 22 by 22 12 inches number Num bro of cutting epco Thir knee kness cakes required required ot 1 I let lc per ton verton per ton inches squat feet 1061 sn I 1 if is II 11 ax U 12 10 4 ft ls at X 78 2 u s to zu ts it 1 23 L 12 1 in foregoing table cakes 22 by 22 inches s wore were used merely because uil investigators found tabt the majority of farmers u were storing cakes of at that size farmers who have a comparatively small quantity of ice to harret hartt will ind find that they need for equipment my two saws two ice ke tongs two ice nooks and a pointe bar maul term cm en ert have found it very profitable to co operate with three or tour four neighbor neighbors small tco ice plow with capacity of twenty to forty tona tons an hour in to filling their Ice houses bouses in such in re each individual may use bis his own tools or the tho complete outfit nay may belong to a operative cooperative co association 1 1 in mark marking tair the ice a long plank may bo used as an a straightedge or it may be used to guide tho the handsaw hand sair the advisability of at utting square or oblong cakes must bi b i decided by the harvester after the ico too cakes are re broken apart two men ice tong tongs can pull with little difficulty A cake of ice ke min tha the water and load tt it on a wagon or bled med it desired a slide anil and a table ibay a be used and a horae borse employed fur for drawing the cake cakes from the water on oil to the Tint platform torm from which they imy be easily loaded before store building an it ehouse of any kind the quantity of ko ke to be stored should be determined the quantity needed for cooling purposes eoa lly ily will vary accordine according to the local conditions condit lons and cannot be definitely elated in all case cacs though it may be calculated approximately affer afler tuly ina the conditions on a R larze large number of farms and obtaining figures retarding the amount of ice deed for cooling dmd keeping bilk ilk and cream tu fu ft a wooden It icehour chouse insulated with sawdust or mid shaving inife sweet condition for tron from to four day days the fallowing lowing fact facts were gatab 1 ice arater tanks were in general ue use for cooling milk and cream 2 the quantity ot of milk or cream cooled in la this manner varied in individual cases from 21 pound pounds to 35 rounds ft a ly day 3 the temp tempora erasm twe ot at the and creem held in such lauke averaged about 40 degrees r 4 in each cue a cake of ice iraa bd boating coating la in the water thia this bowed showed that there was a constant sup P ply of ice in the tank 5 A total of pound pounds of 0 cream required p lourds of ice dally daily or an average ot at 11 pounds of ico ice per pound of cream to cool coot and hold until delivered these figurea were obtained from actual conditions and covered a period of six weeks in which the tempera ture outdoors varied from 60 to degrees P F owing to the different conditions under which ire fee la is bandied handled the location of the buildings in reference to protection and the quantity of at ice packed it Is not surprising to note a large varia varla tion in shrinkage in an examination of more than farmers icehouse icehouses the shrinkage brin kage was found to vary from SO 20 to CO 50 br cont cent with an avenge wa of 27 per cent |