An Ice-house For Five Dollars

A neighbor of mine has an enclosure about six feot square in the clear, and six foet high. The walls are formed of old refuse timbar thrown oarelessly togeth with no regard to form or comeliness. The roof is made of hemlook boards. Tho entire cost of the strueture did not exceed $5, and, practioally eonsidered, it it is a succoss; not ambitious of containing thirty-five loads of ice, but siuiply five loads. Ten years this little, unpretentious house has boen used for ice, and never yet dishonored a draft upon its orystal deposit. About sixinches of sawdust wore spread upon the ground fioor, and in packing a space of about nine inches was left between the ice and the walls of the building, for sawdust, and about nine inches of sawdust was spread upon the top of the ice, and the thing was fixed. The three mam principies observed here will always insure a supply of ice, viz., ventilation,good drainage, and plenty of sawdust. With these rules adhered to, a corner of any old open shed will prove quite efficiënt in preserving ice. - New England Ilomeatead..