. Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the year 1863 . 44G AGRICULTURAL REPORT,. THE ICE TRADE. 447 not clone, and the cold continues, there will be little or no increase of thicknessof ice. One firm lately expended $8,000 in cleaning the ice for cutting. Icebeing of sufficient thickness, and the snow and snow ice removed, first astraight line is made with a hand groove with a straight-edged board for a ruler;then the swing-guide-marker is used, making parallel grooves twenty-twoinches apart. When the ice is thick enough to cut, it is marked by parallellines twenty-two inches apart, c
. Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the year 1863 . 44G AGRICULTURAL REPORT,. THE ICE TRADE. 447 not clone, and the cold continues, there will be little or no increase of thicknessof ice. One firm lately expended $8,000 in cleaning the ice for cutting. Icebeing of sufficient thickness, and the snow and snow ice removed, first astraight line is made with a hand groove with a straight-edged board for a ruler;then the swing-guide-marker is used, making parallel grooves twenty-twoinches apart. When the ice is thick enough to cut, it is marked by parallellines twenty-two inches apart, crossing the former marking at right in every second line each way the six and eight-inch cutters are drawn,cutting two-thirds through the ice; also the ten and twelve-inch cutters areemployed when necessary. Then the lines where they intersect are calkedwith the calking-bar, where the ice is to be cut off, to prevent the water fromrunning through the seams and freezing. Strips are sawn from twenty-fiveto fifty feet in length, two, four, or six deep lines in width, as conve
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