Show ty VA COOLING MILK BY electricity NEW current Is cheaper than ice on many dairy farms the advent of electric refrigeration as a new method of cooling milk has awakened new interest among dairymen la in the cost and efficiency of the several methods used to get low temperatures in their cooling vats vata said II 11 F Buck bucknam narn of shenew york agricultural college in a radio talk As long as it was a question of another cake of tee ice from a well filled ice fee house no one worried much about the cost of cooling milk on farms but when the cost of cooling shows up every month on the bill tor foi electricity interest in the subject develops rapid ly mr bucknam said although there Is considerable variation in the cost of electric equipment and its installation 9 t may he be roughly estimated that the Im investment estment will be ba from 75 to tot toi each can capacity the amount of current required Is easily ascertained studies made in wisconsin show an average requirement of about eight tenths of a kilowatt hour tor for each can of milk cooled this investigation reports studies in large size dairies where a high efficiency may be expected limited investigation vesti gation in new york snows that thai the kilowatt hour consumption to a can was somewhat higher at rates available in most of new york tori the cost of actual operation would be about five cents for current and nine cents a can tor for maintenance of equipment making a total cost tor for cooling with electricity of fourteen cents a can as compared with a cost of sixteen cents byice cooling as generally figured if a farmer has a good ice house a convenient ice fee pond and no serious labor problems it would probably be cheaper for him film to continue with ice fee according to mr bucknam it if on the tha other hand it Is necessary to build a new ice house or go to any great expense to repair one or it if labor Is a serious problem the use of electricity should be thoroughly investigated |