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We have everything that it takes to make your
home comfortable. Our stock is large and com
plete, prices moderate, quality the best for the
money. A visit to our store will convince you.
Hayden-Holloway Furn. Co.
FOR YOUR
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THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
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r IF WE CAN BE OF SERVICE TO
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when you are getting ready for
Spring work. Don’t forget we
carry a complete line of the
best Hardware on earth.
Beattie Hdw. Co.
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Not a Local Insurance Agency only,
But a Newport Business Institution
The world has turned from destruction to reconstruction. Increas
I ed activity and improvement in real estate will bring an increased
I need for fire insurance. Greatly advanced replacement cost will
call for larger policies. It is well to be prepared for contingencies,
over which you have no control by placing your business with an
agency whose reputation has been gained by more than 25 years
of practical experience.
Phillips a Ferguson Agency
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COLD STORAGE
PUNT IS y
Enables Farmers to Hold Their
Perishable Products.
CO-OPERATIVE PLAN ADOPTED
Ice Can Be Kept All Summer in In
expensive Houses if Proper Care
Is Taken When It Is Packed
in Winter.
By W. A. RADFORD.
Mr. 'William A. Radford will answer
questions and give advice FREE OF
COST on all subjects pertaining to the
subject of building, for the readers of this
paper. On account of his wide experience
as Editor, Author and Manufacturer, he
is, without doubt, the highest authority
on all these subjects. Address all inquiries
to William A. Radford, No. 1827 Prairie
avenue, Chicago, 111., and only enclose
three-cent stamp for reply.
In some sections of the country
farmers are building co-operative cold
storage plants for the proper storage
before shipment of perishable farm
products.
The accompanying Illustrations
show the perspective and floor plan
of a moderate-sized, well-built cold
storage building. It is intended to
encourage the proper boxing and ship
ping of farm produce in a way that
will secure the respect of purchasers.
Produce properly handled, uniformly
packed in the proper carriers and
shipped in refrigerator cars pleases
customers and assures future sales.
The plan of this cold-storage plant
provides a packing room where the
work of handling is done to the best
possible advantage.
Next to the packing room is a pre
cooling room, 12 by 14 feet in size.
This is for the purpose of taking the
heat out of newly arrived fruit and
truck from the farms before being
loaded Into refrigerated cars or places
In the cold-storage room proper. In
either case this pre-cooling room an
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IswerB as an ante-room to prepare the
candidate for further Icing.
The cold-storage room is 21 by 14
feet in size, with a high ceiling to
hold produce in considerable quantity.
The other room in the main part of
the building holds the ice.
Good Construction Required.
To be satisfactory a cold-storage
building requires good construction.
This plan provides a good, solid, con
crete foundation with walls and foot
ings solid enough to be permanent.
There are concrete floors laid as a
foundation for the insulation. Above
the regular Insulation is a carefully
made floor of cement.
The walls and ceiling are made the
same as the floor with the exception
of the concrete floor underlayer.
Waterproofed Insulating board is
used all around the cold-storage room
and the ice room, as shown in the
cross sections.
It will be noticed that the packing
room and pre-cooling room are built
in the annex to the main building and
have lower ceilings. The space be
tween these ceilings and roof is util
ized for the storage of packing mate
rials.
Such buildings are useful in com
munities where small fruits and veg
etables are grown to be shipped some
distance to large market sections. The
man in charge of the cold-storage j
plant attends to the packing and load- j
ing, so that the packages are uniform
and true to weights, measures and j
grades. The farmers simply grow j
the stuff and haul it to the packing
house in packing trays. The man in i
charge keeps track of each farmer's \
account and renders a statement the
first of each month.
Ice Easily Kept.
It is easy to keep ice all summer
if you know how. When Ice is Stored
away for summer use and leaks away j
before it is wanted there is a reason
for it. In the first place there must
be a sufficient quantity of ice together
to keep cold, and there must be pro
tection against warm air and there
must be no leak in the roof.
Some of the first farmer ice houses
were built underground or partly so.
It often happened that drainage was
imperfect and that water accumulated
__ in and around the bottom of the bon e
~ and melted the ice so that by the rotd
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die of summer, sometimes even be*
fore the month of June, the ice would
all be gone. |
Years ago it was considered neces
| sary to make very expensive walls td
keep the ice from melting and a great
| many experiments have been conduct
ed for the purpose of finding out the
best way to build ice houses. The
right principle of refrigerator build
ing has confused builders of ice
houses, and some of them have not'
yet recognized the difference.
An ice house is intended to preserve'
; Ice while a refrigerator is Intended to
make use of it, economically, of,
course, but when a piece of ice is put
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Into a refrigerator it has a mission'
to perform. It is required to take th6j (
heat out of other material to preserve!
food products and it must dissipate ibj
self in the process, while ice is placed
in the ice house to stay, to be preSj
served until wanted for use.
An open shed will preserve ice, ojj
it may be piled up in a field and kept
all summer by simply putting a covel
over it to keep off the rain and ad
inner cover of sawdust to keep out
the air. Such a crude way of keeplnj
ice is necessarily wasteful, but not tfl
the extent popularly supposed.
Roof Must Be Tight.
It is quite possible to put a cube Olj
ice twelve feet through In a cheaplS,
constructed building and so pack ii'
with sawdust as to keep it in a veryj
satisfactory way until wanted durlngj
the summer months. The roof must
be tight because water dropping often
in the same spot will bore a holt
through the sawdust covering down
to the ice; warm air will follow and
we all know that air must be kept
away from ice or it will melt rapidly.
Drainage is another very important
consideration. The bottom must be
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air-tight, but it must be porous enough
to allow water to percolate through.
For this reason a base formed of rough
stones covered with cindere and the
cinders covered with a foot of saw
dust makes a good bottom. A very
satisfactory substitute is made by
laying.emall round poles in the bottom
of the ice house covered with straw
and the straw covered with sawdust
about a foot deep.
There is a good deal in packing the
Ice In the house to make it keep well.
It should be put in during cold weath
er and all the chinks carefully filled
with broken ice and the whole mass
well frozen together by pouring on
water. By doing this very carefully
the ice can be frozen together almost
solid so the air will all be forced out.
There should be a space of a foot
between the Ice and the sides of the
house all around and this foot filled
in with sawdust tamped down. The
sawdust should be at least a foot
deep on top of the ice; 18 Inches is
better..
Must Have Attention.
A great deal of ice is lost during
the spring months when the weather
is getting warm, but not warm enough
to require the use of ice In the re
frigerator. During these weeks the
ice house is forgotten, and it melts
a little and settles. The settling proc
ess opens cracks in the wet sawdust
and some of these cracks will extend
through to the ice. After the house
is filled and covered with sawdust it
should have attention at least once
a week. If the sawdust is kept packed
down well all around and on top the
ice cannot melt very much.
There are other details to think
about, such as ventilation and shade.
It is a great help to have the house
shaded by a large tree or another
building. When the sun beats down
hot on top of the roof the temperature
inside the building is a great deal
higher than it would be with the roof
shaded.
In choosing the location conveni
ence in using the ice should be con
sidered in preference to convenience
in filling the ice house, because tbe
filling is done in a day or two where
as the unloading process occupies sev
eral months and requires innumerable
trips between the kitchen and the ice
house.
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Little Rock and St. Louis. Best Goods,
Lowest Price, Quality[considered in state
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