Show 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 in the cost and effi efficiency clency of the several methods used to get low temperatures in their cooling vats said it R F Buc bucknam knain of the new york agricultural college in a radio talk As long as it was a question of another cake of ice from a well filled ice house no one worried much about the cost of cooling milk on farms but when the cost of cooling shows up every mouth month on the bill for electricity interest in the subject develops rapidly mr bucknam said although there Is considerable variation in the cost of electric equipment and its installation it may be roughly estimated that the investment will be from 75 to for foi each can capacity the amount of current required Is easily ascertained studies made in wisconsin show nn an average requirement of about eight tenths of a kilowatt hour for eachran each can of milli cooled this investigation reports studies la in large size dairies where a high efficiency may be expected limited in vestil gation in new york snows shows that the kilowatt hour consumption to a can was somewhat higher at rates available in most of new york the cost of 0 actual operation would be about five cents for current and nine cents a can for maintenance of f equipment making a total cost tor for cooling with electricity of fourteen cents a can as compared with a cost of six teen cents by ice cooling as generally fizur figured ed if a farmer has a good ice house a convenient ice fee pond and no serious labor problems it would protin probably bly be cheaper for him to continue with ice according to mr bucknam it if on the other hand band it Is necessary to build a new ice house or go to any great expense to repair one or if labor Is a serious problem tte the use of electricity should bp be thoroughly investigated |