The Ice Crop: How to Harvest, Store, Ship and Use IceHiles, Theron L.
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The Ice Crop: How to Harvest, Store, Ship and Use Ice
Hiles, Theron L.
Ice
Packing house, a cold 98–101
Construction of 99–101
Temperature considered in removing fruit from 101
Use for on large farms 98, 99
Packing ice for shipment 58
Packing in the house 37–41
Methods employed, various 38
Method, a good 38, 39
Quantity packed dependent on arrangement 38
Runs, arrangement of outside and in 37–40
Preface 5
Purity, conditions of 11, 23
Shipping ice from field 42
Refrigerator cars 91–94
Construction 91–93
Icing 93
Ventilating 93
Refrigerator vessels 94, 95
Extent of traffic through 94, 95
Temperature, how regulated 94
Ventilation of 95
Retarding cellars and houses 96–101
Caves for storage 96
Cellars without ice 97
Site for constructing ice house (see also “Cold storage
ice house”) 44, 45
Accessibility from water and land 44
Arrangement of house determined by lay of land 45
Good site dependent on what 45
How to select 45
Transportation facilities considered 45
Snow, usefulness of 16
Sources of ice supply 11–14
Artificial 13, 84–91
Lakes fed by streams 11
Purity of compared 11, 12
Running streams 11
Storage cellars, construction of 97, 98
Streams, changing the course of 13
Strength of ice 62
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