. Modern farm buildings : being suggestions for the most approved ways of designing the cow barn, dairy, horse barn, hay barn, sheepcote, piggery, manure pit, chicken house, root cellar, ice house, and other buildings of the farm group, on practical, sanitary and artistic lines . BOT - DOOR|i THICK ?+ iV^— CROSS SECTION FIG 77.—ELEVATION AND DETAIL OF ICE HOUSE outside wall, and with ice so placed 45 cu. ft. of space is al-lowed for every ton. It seems impossible to do anything with the ice house to-wards making it sightly. The only thing, therefore, is to keep. CORN CRIB. FARM BUILDI
. Modern farm buildings : being suggestions for the most approved ways of designing the cow barn, dairy, horse barn, hay barn, sheepcote, piggery, manure pit, chicken house, root cellar, ice house, and other buildings of the farm group, on practical, sanitary and artistic lines . BOT - DOOR|i THICK ?+ iV^— CROSS SECTION FIG 77.—ELEVATION AND DETAIL OF ICE HOUSE outside wall, and with ice so placed 45 cu. ft. of space is al-lowed for every ton. It seems impossible to do anything with the ice house to-wards making it sightly. The only thing, therefore, is to keep. CORN CRIB. FARM BUILDINGS FOR CLIFFORD V. BROKAW, ESQ., GLEN COVE, L. I. OTHER BUILDINGS 205 it out of sight, and the woods—a dense woods—is the best placefor it. The author never builds an ice house, nor thinks of one,without recalling to mind an experience he had some years agoin connection with the construction of a large ice house atSkylands Farm. Wishing to obtain as much reliable infor-mation as possible, he went to see the manager—in fact thepresident—of one of the largest ice companies in New York,to profit by his experience and his advice. The author, afterdwelling at somewhat greater length upon his own views thanhe had intended—a not infrequent occurrence with those whoseek the views of others, was replied to by the managing presi-dent somewhat as follows: Well, we have built ice houses ofwood, we have built ice houses of brick, we have built icehouses of stone, and put them above ground and below ground;we have ice houses along the Hudson that hold 50,000 tons of
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