INDEX.

Artificial ice and cold air machines 48–91

Air machines 88

Extent of artificial refrigeration 90

Fruit storage plant at Waldo, Fla. 88

Historical sketch 84, 85

Latest inventions, the 88

Principles of ice machines 85, 86

Systems employed 86, 87

Uses of 90, 91

Care, handling and marketing of crop 56–63

Care of ice in houses 56

Coupon tickets, use of 62

Lowering ice from house 58

Marketing 60

Packing ice for shipment 58, 60

Taking out ice from house 58

Ventilators, how to use 41, 56, 58

Wasting of ice, causes and preventatives 56

Cold storage 63–86

Construction of house for 63

Co-operation, benefits of 78

Extent and benefits of 63, 64

Preservative power for various articles, extent of 65

Principles of 67

Temperature, variation of 65

Use of 64, 67

Cold storage ice house (see also “Retarding house,” and “Storage cellars,” and “Packing house”):

Barn corner ice house 79

Cheap ice house 77

Combined dairy, cold storage and ice house 72, 73

Construction of 63, 67, 68

Cost of ice in house 80

Creamery ice house 71, 72

Floor, best construction of 73

Freezing room 73

General arrangement of 69

Loading platform 80

Milk room 73

Principles employed 67

Sample house described 71

Size of rooms 73

Silo as an ice house 77

Tanks 75

Temperature considered in removing fruit from 101

Tools required in stowing ice 80

Ventilators 68

Walls considered, various 68, 69

Construction of commercial ice houses 43–55

Construction, details of 47–54

Development of the modern ice house 43, 44

Earliest forms of ice storage 43

Site for 44, 45

Survey and foundation 45–47

Construction of ice house, details of 47–54

Air spaces 47

Chains, over-shot and under-shot 55

Engine 55

Floor 53

Lightning rods, use of 51

Lumber required, dimensions of 47

Platforms for loading cars 53

Posts, inside and out 47, 49

Roof, a good construction for 49

Sills, inside and out 47

Studding, main outer and inner 47

Ventilators 51, 68

Walls and partitions 49

Contents, table of 115

Co-operation, how best practiced 79

Co-operation in ice-cutting and cold storage 78

Creamery ice house 71, 72

Cutting and storing ice 14–42, 83

Calking bar, use of the 27

Care of ice fields 15, 83

Care of tools 32–35

Channels and canals 25, 83

Channels, early work on the 29

Closing and caring for the house 41, 42

Condition of field at quitting time 29

Cracks in the ice 26

Danger signals 23

Floats, how to handle 27

Flooding, use of 17

Harvesting, danger of delay in 20

Harvesting outfit 20–23

Housing the crop 29–32, 35–38

Inspection of field 20, 23

Laying out ice field 23

Marking and plowing 23–25

Opening up the field 26

Packing ice in the house 37–41

Plowing, results of delay in 34

Plowing, process of 83

Refuse ice 23

Science of ice formation 14, 15

Shipping from the field 42

Snow, removal of 17, 21

Snow scrapers 17, 18

Tapping the field during a thaw 19

Thickness of ice 21

Tool room and fittings 35

Windrows, how best distributed 19

Dairy, cold storage and ice house, combined 72, 73

Freezing house, a 73

Harvesting (see cutting and storing)

Historical sketch, an 7–11

Domestic and export trade 7

Export trade, height of 7

Extent of ice industry 9

Home of the industry 9

Methods for securing, development of 8

Modern ice harvest, pen picture of 10

Origin of business in United States 7

Preserving or antiseptic powers of ice 9

Uses of ice, growing 8

House, closing and caring for the 41–42

Sawdust or mill shavings, how used 41

Tools, inspection of 41–42

Ventilation 41, 56, 58

Housing the ice 29–32

Discipline on the field, value of 32

Methods employed, various 29, 35

Preferable time for, the 35

Protection at sides of channel, necessity for 30

Runs, or skids, how arranged 37, 40

Serious accidents, how prevented 32

Stowing, process of 37, 39

Water box, use of 30

Iced beverages: Coffee, cooling drink, gum arabic water, jelly water, lemonade, sago milk, tea 114

Ice creams and ices 102–107

Almond 106

Brown bread 103

Chocolate 104

Cinnamon 106

Coffee 105

Cocoanut 103

Fig 104

General directions for making 102

Neapolitan 105

New York 104

Orange 106

Peach 106

Strawberry 103

Swan’s down 106

Tapioca 106

Tea 105

Vanilla 103, 106

Walnut 105

Iced dishes 107–114

Biscuit glace 110

Blackberry ice 112

Blanc mange 111–113

Bombe glace 110

Cherry ice 112

Currant sherbet 109

Custards 112

Frozen apricots 109

Frozen peaches 109

Frozen pudding 107

Frozen raspberries 109

Frozen strawberries 109

Glace meringue 110

Lemon ice 107

Lemon jelly 113

Lemon sherbet 108

Macaroni custard 112

Nesselrode pudding 107

Orange sherbet 108

Pineapple sherbet 108

Pineapple water ice 112

Raspberry ice 112

Raspberry sherbet 109

Snow pudding 113

Strawberry ice 113

Strawberry sherbet 108

Tutti frutti 107

Iced food and beverages 101–114

Iced beverages 114

Ice creams and ices 102–107

Iced dishes 107–114

Ice field, care of 15, 83

Ice houses, barn corner 79

Cheap 77

Cold storage 63, 67, 68, 69, 71, 72, 73

Commercial 43–55

Creamery 71, 72

Dairy and cold storage combined 72, 73

Silo 77

Ice in transportation 91–96

Fisheries, ice in the 95

Ocean transportation 94–95

Refrigerator cars 91, 92

Refrigerator vessels 94

Value of 94

Ice machines, Principles of 85–86

Industry, the ice 7–10

Extent of 7, 9

Home of 9

Origin of in United States 7

Laws for protection of crop 11

Regarding prohibition of cutting on polluted streams 11

Public vs. private ownership of ice fields 12

Legal and sanitary matters 11–14

Gravel as a bed for ice ponds, use of 12

Laws for protection of crop 11

Preservation of purity of streams and lakes 11

Purity of crop, how maintained 11

Marketing ice 60

Ownership of ice fields, public vs. private 12

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

Survey and foundation for house 45–47

Drainage, the value of 45

Foundations, extent of 45

Importance of survey 45

Inclined ways, use and construction of 54

Life of house, how extended 45

Tool room and fittings 35

Tools, care of 32–35, 41–42

Elevator machinery repairing 41

Engine and its parts 42

Good vs. inferior tools 32

Inspection of after use 41

Plows, how often rendered useless 34

Plows, the best 34

Repairing, the best time for 34

Repairing tools required 34

Saws, how to care for 32

Storing room 35

Uses of ice in refrigeration (see also “Cold storage”)

Cold storage, extent and benefits of 63

Decay of fruits prevented 67

Fruits, meats and vegetables, preservation of 65, 67

Poultry, how best preserved 73

Uses of ice, the growing 8, 64

Ventilators, construction of 51, 68

Use of 41, 56, 58, 68

Wasting of ice in house, causes and preventives 56

Weight of ice 62