Show Da Dairy Farmers See Need of Well Built Ice House The dairy farmers who smile during the hot da days s 's are those who had the foresight to lay In a n supply of ice last Winter vinter Many luny other dairymen now see the advantage of having a n large cheap supply of Ice to keep their milk cooled and arid are therefore thinking of erecting their own Icehouses A good house can be built on the following plan says E. E It R. Gross professor of rural engineering at the New Jersey State College of Agriculture The floor should be pebbles or gravel to afford drainage The foundation of masonry or concrete should extend well r-well well vell Into the ground and the capacity of the house will be Increased ased if the floor Is placed at the bottom of the foundation Make the foundation 9 to 12 Inches thick Use 2 by inch 8 studding with sheathing building paper paper paper pa pa- per and weather boarding outside Sheathing alone on the Inside will make a good house but It is still better better better bet bet- ter If the Inside wall Is Js constructed of two layers liers of boarding sheathing boarding sheathing against the studding and the sheathing sheathing sheathing sheath sheath- ing covered with tongued-and-grooved tongued boarding with a la layer er of paper in be be- tween An ordinary shingle roof left open pen at the eaves and with a ventilator ventilator ventilator tor at the ridge completes the lye building One and one half to two tons of Ice Is needed for each cow One ton occupies occupies occupies pies CO GO cubic feet teet The packing of the ice Is probably the most the things to be observed in Ice storage The Ice must be cut evenly so It will pack closely And crevices should be filled with chipped Ice fee The Ice block if properly packed Is practically ally one solid soUd mass massof massof of f Ice On top bottom and all sides of f the Ice pack not less than 12 Inches of sawdust Chopped straw or other ether In Insulating In- In material material |