| Show ice needs on farms in parts of the country where natural ice fee suitable for storing g Is formed it is time to provide for next nest summers needs the department of agriculture has estimated that one half ton of ice fee per cow will vill serve the dairyman to cool and hold ere cream am at a safe temperature if delivered two or three times a weel week however it if the whole milk is to be cooled the needs will be not it ss than a ton and a half per cow these estimates were in made ide presuming that both lee ice house and cooling in tanks lire are in good condition cori dirion if more than 3 30 0 per cent of the lee ice is lost by ni melting elting the amount stored will have to be increased increase accordingly the average family needs between five and ten tons per season even when the ice Is used sparingly |
