Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1913-07-04 | Page 7 | Milk Cooler of Concrete

MILK COOLER OF CONCRETE As Water Is Constantly Changing Milk Can Be Cooled In the Shortest Possible Time. The Illustration shows a milk cooler that is very easily constructed by anyone and will repay its cost many times over in a season's ubo. A box form is constructed of the size you wish the outside of the cooler to be; the inside Is made in the same manner man-ner only about eight inches smaller so as to allow for a four-inch wall to the tank or cooler on all sides. The concrete con-crete is mixed, one part cement to five parts of sand and gravel, and the bottom bot-tom of cooler laid first; this may go 1 three and one-half or four inches thick, as you desire; the box form for the inside is then set upon this floor or bottom at an equal distance from the outside form on all four sides, and' the concrete for the walls placed and tamped down. At one end the wall la. slightly lower in center to provide for' Concrete Milk Cooler. an overflow, as shown. The tank should be high enough so that when filled with water It will be within two or three inches of the top of milk can, and as the water 1b constantly con-stantly changing, the milk can be cooled in the shortest possible time; it may also be built slightly larger to , allow for ice to be packed around the milk cans, when it is desired to hasten the cooling process.