. Barn plans and outbuildings . e ice house, seen at a,Figure 267, the milk room, h, the vestibule, c, with stairsleading to the winter milk room below, and an attic above,for the storage of sawdust for the ice. The ice house istwelve feet square and fourteen feet deep, holding thirty-six loads of ice, or over 2000 cubic feet. It is six feetbelow ground and eight feet above. The walls are ofstone, eighteen inches thick. The frame building abovethe wall is eight feet high. The lining boards of the icehouse extend down the face of the wall to the bottom,making an air space of eighteen inches, wh
. Barn plans and outbuildings . e ice house, seen at a,Figure 267, the milk room, h, the vestibule, c, with stairsleading to the winter milk room below, and an attic above,for the storage of sawdust for the ice. The ice house istwelve feet square and fourteen feet deep, holding thirty-six loads of ice, or over 2000 cubic feet. It is six feetbelow ground and eight feet above. The walls are ofstone, eighteen inches thick. The frame building abovethe wall is eight feet high. The lining boards of the icehouse extend down the face of the wall to the bottom,making an air space of eighteen inches, which is filled 268 BARN PLANS AND OUTBUILDINGS with sawdust. The ice house is filled through threedoors, one above the other, at the rear end. There isperfect drainage at the bottom of the house, with ampleventilation above, and no currents of air reach the milk room, h, is twelve feet square, and is one footlower than the ice room. It is divided into two stories ofseven and one-half feet each, for winter and summer Fig. 266 A PENNSYLVANIA DAIRY HOUSE A ventilator enters the ceiling of the lower room, andleads to the cupola at the top, furnishing complete ven-tilation for both rooms. The vestibule, c, is four feetwide and eight feet long. Here the milk is strained andskimmed, the butter worked and the pans are floor is of flagging laid in cement, as is that of thewinter or lower dairy. The pool, d, which contains icewater, is thirty-six inches long, sixteen inches wide and A PENNSYLVANIA DAIRY HOUSE 269 twenty inches deep; in this the deep pans and creamcans are immersed. The waste from the ice box, e,can be turned into this pool. If the deep can system ofsetting milk should be practiced, this pool can be length-ened to twelve feet. A drain, f, carries off all the wastewater from the room. At g, Figures 267 and 268, is a cool-ing cupboard, located in the wall between the ice houseand the milk room, six feet high, four feet wide andeighteen inches deep. T
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