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ICE-HOUSE. —To Build Good but Cheap. 2
satisfied how to build an ice-house. —Cor. N. T. Farmers' Club, in Rural New Yorker.
Remarks—I see this writer speaks twice of a "foot or more, " i. e., of the sawdust over the ice. I should "go" for more, say as least 18 or 20 inches, and it strikes me as more correct also to keep out the sun; but have a window in each gable to allow the wind to pass through to carry off the moisture arising from the ice I am honest in the opinion that a simple wall with 18 or 20 inches of sawdust between the wall and ice is better than a double wall. Tramp the sawdust down well as filled in.
This is confirmed by J. S. Stephens, of Moore's Hill, Ind., writing to the Cincinnati Gazette, with a slight difference, in that he built his only 13 feet
square, keeping 18 inches of sawdust between the ice and boards, giving him a block of ice 9x9 feet, and digging six inches into the ground at the bottom, then putting in sawdust enough to give him 1 foot when settled with the ice upon it, so he had 6 inches drainage above the ground; he says, too, "the space above the ice to be open and free for circulation and for the sun to shine in. " I would keep the sun out, except by windows, to let the air go through. The Gazette added the following comment: "We regard the above as one of the best plans for a cheap ice-house ever published. Many ice-houses costing three times what the above would cost, have proved failures, the ice all melting by mid-summer.
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