Show artificial ICE MADE BY FARMER freezing weather and pure fure clean water are two things absolutely necessary METAL CANS OR BAGS USEFUL in very old sections water may be run into house and frozen in layers layerd must be cut or chopped out with ax Pre prepared parea liy the th united states department of agriculture to male make natural ice fee one essential Is hater and the other is freezing weather neather the trouble is that in many rases bases there is plenty of the right kind of weather but little or none of the inter anter at least the kind of water that will be still long enough to be frozen there are several ways of getting around this difficulty according to harvesting un anal storing lee ice on the ft 1 2 11 d in times of cold weather prepare for summer harvesting ice in a northern state farm a farmers bulletin issued by the united states department of agriculture tul ture making an ice pond suppose a farmer finds no suitable lake or pond in his neighborhood lie ile can create an artificial lake by diverting a stream into an excavation or by building a dam dain across a low piece of ground some farmers have made lales lakes in their front yards and they hai hae e been pretty in surn summer as well as useful in NA winter Inter one thin thing that must not tie lie forgotten is to keep these lakes pui pure e and clean how to do that Is described in the bulletin but suppose a farmer has no place tor for a lake although cold weather prevails in ili ills his part of the country for several weeks at a u time ile he can freeze his lee ice in metal cans or special paper bags the cans may be made in any con eilent size by a local tinsmith says the bulletin and should be of galvanized iron reinforced at top and bottom aith iron strips the bottom Is made smaller than the top to make the removal lemoal of fleice easier the cans calls are placed near lie file water supply filled with water and left exposed to the meat weather ber A shell of lee ice soon freezes the inner surface and when the shell Is from 1 12 1 2 to 2 inches thick hot water Is poured over oer the outside of the can ani and the shell removed A holle hole Is broken through at the top of the shell and most of the water nater inside Is then poured out As the freezing progresses water Is poured into the shell a tittle at a time fline until a solid block of ice Is produced by this method only a few cans are required which keeps the cost low Ad advantage vanta ja of bags about the same method is employed plo ed when hen special paper bags are used although they do not last so ton long as the cinq the advantage of tile bags oer the metal cans Is mainly in cheapness for they are not so convenient to lo handle another method that can be used in very cold sections of the united states Is to run water into the lee ice boue house tind and let a laber freeze this is done by first constructing a darn dam of snow around the floor of the house ton ten or twelve inches froin the walls in order lo 10 allow sawdust insulations next nest to the dialls the interior of the house is then hooded flooded with nith it a few inches of waler soon freezes the procedure being repeated until the house houe Is filled with ice fee it is tile then covered cover t 1 I with saw sawdust dut and closed clofed up until lee ice N 1 needed A great disadvantage of tills trie method Is that in order to remove ice fee it must be cut or ch chopped ripped out with an ax bloh velch results in uneven and irregular dieves and considerable waste of ice fee |