To Keep Ice Cheaply

A suppl}' ot ico to koop thrjugh the heat of nummer contri 'jutes to prcifjt as wol! as luxury, und a receptieal in which it may be kept is nol necessarily expensive. The muin esentials are : lst, an outside shell, with {rom. eight to twelve nches of clean sawduat, or other dry porus material gd, prnteclioú from the direot rays of the sun ; 3d, a pipe throuyh which to drain off or pump out any water thit may collect at thu bottom. Ice has been kept through the senson iu an enclosure made by notching long rails and laying thern up like the outer ralla ot a log house, in a position entirely proteeted by the sun. The ico was cut in large, solid blocks, packed c'osely and water turnod oa lo each layer and allowed to freeïe ao!id A space of ten or twelve inches between the roof and ice This was entirely abovo jround Ice has also beeq kept iu a similar structijre one half under ground One that tried this four years failed at first becanse he used straw instead of sawdü.sf i:r filling in aroimd the ice. When he relied upon siï inches of saw diiat he h;td peifeot auccess. The walls oi his ice house ere made by settinji cornmon dtuddjng upright nnd boarding up'eai h side of the studs, filling the space belween with sawdiiht. Another hun Riicceeded well bv t?cavtiting - inclurlinji the embankment made by the soil thrown out - ubout twelve feet m dupth, then laj ing up n stone wull. dry to the top of the ground and in mnrtar the retnaining dixtanee to the top of the embankment, covering the whole with a good roof. All that is necessary to succoss in keeping ice is Mly stated in the first part of this irt.icle, and each can best judge for mfelf as to H-hut particular style of structure will best suit hisG'.reumstan ceg.