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VOL. LV. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., OCT. 13, 1900. NO. 41 %lxvzvU*xtz _)zpi%vtnxmt How Should an Ice House Be Built? How Harvest and Store Ice so It Will Keep? lst Premium.—In the year 1864, I built my first ice house, after consulting nn old ice man. My studding was of oak pieces, 2x12 inches, 8 feet long, set on a sill of the same size laid on the ground after it had been leveled. My building was 12 feet square from out to out. I lined or boarded this with rough boards, both outside and inside, put on horizontally. This gave me a wall 12 inches thick, well packed with sawdust, and left an ice chamber 10x10 feet, 8 feet high, or 800 cubic feet. I then put on plates and rafters, with a comb roof covered with plank. The gables were covered with shingle inch boards, with a door in one gable, and the boards sawed out between tw6 studding near to the ground for a door to put in and take out ice. These boards were placed back as the house was filled and held by cleats. I marked off my ice on the creek two feet square, and sawed it with an old- cross-cut saw. I hauled and filled the house to the square. The ice cakes being two feet square, five cakes each way filled the house full to the wall, but before putting your ice in- put in six or eight inches of sawdust on the ground. In putting the ice in pound up some ice and fill all crevices, so that the house is a solid mass to the wall. When filled cover with sawdust, and when the weather gets warm the ice will melt some next the wall, leaving a space whieh you should keep filled with sawdust. You will have to chop your ice out. You do not want your house too tight above, but there must be no currents up through the ice. Now, I built the house on the cheaps out of second or third class lumber. We had all the ice we could use and my wife usually had from $20 to $25 in her pocket from sales made when I was in tho field. My house stood in the back ground. If you have to build where your ice house will be conspicuous and vou want it to look well, line it with drop siding and paint. Take out enough ice in the morning to last you through the day, two days is better. I also made an ice chest, as follows: Take a good sized box put in- six inches of sawdust, set in it a smaller box, leaving six inches between to be filled with sawdust. Have a lid to each box, and have cleats on the side, and loose cleats, so that they car.' be removed to put in the ice, and you will have room for such articles as need ice, milk, butter, meat, etc. Set it in the hall or shed for it will drip some. Marion Co. I. N. C. 2d Premium.—Why should any farmer, rich or poor, deny himself and family this greatest of the summer luxuries, when with a small outlay of time and energy, he can have an abundant supply? A farmer of limited means built for himself an ice house that answered the purpose of a more expensive structure. It is simply a bin of rough boards, 15 feet square and roofed over, leaving a large opening at front and sides. He says his ice kept perfectly all the season. He put sawdust a foot or more thick on the ground, then stacked the ice snugly in the center, 20 inches from the walls, then filled in with sawdust and up over the top an equal thickness, packing the saw dust firmly. When he takes the cakes out, they seem to come out as square and perfect as when they were put in. A more convenient, and, I may add, more expensive ice house is made on the north side of what we call a "sawdust cellar." it is 12x14 feet on the outside. The outside walls are made of inch plank, nailed up and down with strips over the cracks. It is also planked up on the inside, leaving a space of 18 inches, which is filled with sawdust. Th sawdust is tramped in and left there from year to year. Eight inches of soil at the bottom was removed. This space is filled with coarse gravel for drainage, and over the gravel is put six inches of sawdust. When the ice is thick it is set within in square blocks. In loading, the blocks are set on edge, fitting in the wagon bed tight as it is less liable to break. Also set them on edge in the bouse- and in tiers one above the other, leaving six inches of space on all sides for sawdust. This leaves the ice iu a square solid mass in the center. Pill tight all around the outside and on top with sawdust well pounded in. Rush Co. M. M. D. REMARKS. The important point in the construction of an ice house is to maintain a non-conductor of heat between the ice and the outside atmosphere. The sawdust-filled spaces described by our correspondents are admirably adopted to this end, and probably nothing better could be devised except at greatly increased cost. One point that has not been touched upon is the advantage of a double roof, or a second roof placed a few inches above the roof proper, with a free circulation of air between them and an outlet at the extreme gable. This will carry off the heat of the direct sun rays, and thus aid materially in protecting the ice. Premiums of $1, 75 cents and 50 cents are given for the first, second and third best articles for the Experience Department each week. Manuscript should be sent direct to the Indiana Farmer Company and should reach us one week before the date of publication. Topics for discussion in future numbers of the Farmer are as follows: No. 241, Oct. 20th—How do you handle chickens during fall and winter? No. 242, Oct. 27th—What changes \rould you advise in the fish and game lows of Indiana? No. 243, Nov. 3.—How keep the boy on the farm? No. 244. Nov. 10.—Give your method of butchering and putting up pork, and show how you make the most of everything. No. 245, Nov. 17.—What is the best way to rent a farm so as to be satisfactory to both tenant and owner, and at the same time keep up the full fertility of the soil? No. 246, Nov. 24.—How will you spend Thanksgiving day? Tell all about the iamily reunions and the good cheer on tbe national holiday. THE TEXAS STORM. Mr. J. T. Huntington, of this city, received the following descriptive letter from his brother, of the great storm that destroyed Galveston, who has been a resident of Texas for about 30 years. It is a miracle that any of his family escaped- Perry's Landing, Tex., Sept. 3. "All of your letters received. We hal opected the State people would buy whatever cane there was in the neighborhood for seed, but after the storm, they, like myself were demoralized, and can't plant any more than they have of thei.- own. I thin-k they have enough to plant 12,000 to 15,000 acres, and as my sugar house is destroyed I will have to plant al! of my cane, which I Ihink will give; me an acreage of 300 acres, which if w> liave a fair season ought to give me a crop of $15,000 to $20,000. The lay alter the storm, the cane looked like a mass of threads, but now it has put out new- leaves and is growing and looks beautiful, of course it was blown down, but is now turned up and is doing its best. The .yes are putting out some, but I don't think it will hurt it much for seed. There are hardly any trees standing, but where there are any they are putting out new leaves and the pear trees are as white ns a snow bank with blooms. I only had two houses partiolly standing. I am putting the houses up as fast as I can, but it is necessarily slow as help is very : earce, and I am haying and plowing for cane as best I can. The negros have all put up little shacks or camps, and seem to be satisfied, but a great many negroes ;ire leaving the country. All my houses in Fort Bend, but three, were blown down. Last year they were washed away ard I replaced them, and this year blown. I think I have lost about 300 head of cat tie, though I can't be certain about tho exact loss until I count them this fall, when we round up. I have advanced the hands on all my places this year, and the cotton crop was a failure. The Mexican weavil and boll worms destroyed it, and instead of making 500 pounds of lint cotton per acre, we will not make 500 to 50 i.eres. If the cotton- crop had been good this year, we would not have felt the storm, as cotton is worth about 10 cents per pound. So tbat what I havo paid out for making crop about $4 500 is gone, except what corn and cane I have. It would take me a week to get the binder out, I had it stored in the northwest corner of the gin, room up stairs, ind the wall and roof timbers fell in and smashed it down to the ground floor and the big brick chimney blew down on top of that, so that it is covered up about 15 feet deep with timber and brick. I think I wrote you that McDuffy, a white man, and two negro children were killed at Ibis place. After we concluded there was a storm on hands, just after dark Saturday evening, we thought Nannie's room the safest, the southeast room, as the wind was blowing from the northwest, thus giving ns the advantage of all th; partition walls, but when the wind got down to business, we tried to -jet out of the house toward where the wind was C( ming from, but could not crawl against it, and knew if we went with it the roofs ind flying timbers would be sure lo kill ls. So the roof soon went and then I thought the heavy joists and flooring above and the ceiling below coidd not be blown off, but the next puff took all that i nd landed it about 400 yards away, and we were bareheaded, without a thit.-g i ver us, and the south wall down level with the ground floor, and we all held together and walked out on the east sidp cf the fallen building and laid down in the water. I got a lick on the head with a brick which knocked me down, but they got me up and I went out with the crowd, and Dan Tata, a white nu'n working for me, was badly cut over the eye, and is l ot well yet, and they say just as w,; went out the other walls fell where we had been standing, at any rate in th morning the brick was 6 feet deep just where we had been standing while the 1 ouse went down. Everyone who saw where we were when the house was, said the Lord must have been with us, Kate got a little frightened whm the gable end begun falling on the upper floor, but we f-oon quieted her and everybody behaved like little soldiers. There must have bee'i 18 inches or 2 feet of water fall that Light, it pelted us so that everybody was sore for a week. We laid in the wate.- until I thought they would chill to death or drowned. We held together and crawled to the frame kitchen and pantry which we expected would be blown on us every minute and by that time a lot of negroes bad collected and I made them hold onto the rafter but we could not get there until nearly mcrning when the wind was not so strong: when the wind was stronger we just had to iie down and hold on lo each other, for if we had turned a child loose it would have been blown away and drowned for every where ther; was a sea of water. The water down the lane from the sugar house to the old 1 urnt house was two or three feet deep next morning Our clock stopped at 15 minutes past 10 o'clock and I suppose thnt was when everything went down. Velasco is blown Pat and there are just a few houses left. The Velasco hotel went abont 5 o'clock in the evening, in fact, most of the town went before night. The walls of the bank ! uilding are still standing, but it is badly wrecked. I think I wrote you that every building oa the Sowwoon State farm went down except tlie captain's house and that badly wrecked. They had about '_'00 prisoners in the building when- it went down, killing 19 and wounding about GO, but they only lost five that ran a i\ay. Brazonia was not hurt much, all the churches blown down was about all; Columbia badly damaged; Angleton, our county seat, nearly all blown down. Richmond nearly all blown down. The storm even blew my tile kiln down, also shed. I thought of all places that would be th1 safest if we could get there but we woul I all have been killed in it. Some of the legroes crawled under the boilers, tbat was the most sensible." CSetie*al flews. Antwerp has tbe hightst chimney in tht; world. It belongs to the silver works company and la 410 feet high. The interior diameter is 25 fejt ut the base and 11 feet at the top. Some 2,000,000 pounds of camphor are consumeJ Ir. the United States yearly. Cairo ia the greatest town of Africa; Its inhabitants number* £.00,000, 25.C00 being Europeans. Moet spiders are possessed of poison-fangs, but very few are dangerous to huim n beings. In 189G, when the harvest w&s abundant, 5,500 tushels of i:pphs were distribotcd In Boston to more than 5,000 applicants. In the rubber forests in Para one latxrer disposes of 100 trees in seven months, securing from 400 to 800 kilogvanimmcs of rubber, of which hj gets half from his employer. Of the 1,070 miles of paved streets in Philadelphia, only 70 remain pi ved with cobble an.l nibble. Manufacturers of birch beer hi^ve been detected fitting down birch trees ln Van Cortlandt Park, Now York, to get the bark to flcvor the llquoi* with. The Departmeiit of Agriculture and Commerce of Japan, predict a splendid rice crop thia year. rIhe average crop b;ing 191,834,200 bushels. A Missouri farmer hss gone into the buslnesi of raising (jii&il. He says thu birds are more easily handled than chickens, and far move pro- titable. While repairing a temple the Chinese cover up the eyes of the idols, in order that the dieties may not be offended at the sight of the disorder. Central New Yoik la particularly a dairy country. A most peculiar thing about 'he marriage ceremony of Russian peasants Is t*" fact that when the couple cuter the church both bridegroom and I vide make a dash for the platform on which is the pulpit. It is believed that the one whose foot touch* a the platform first will live the longer, and that the children will take after that one li size, health and beauty. Mexico promises to be a larg» factor In the orange markets within a year or two, as the d3- vclopment of grovts ihero nas recently been taken up very largely. It is said by an author- in the trade that by 1903 a large part of our oranges will come from Mexico It is generally stipulated in France when wine is sold that ihe purchaser shall re*arn ths barrel :it bis own expense, and the cry, "send back my barrel," is going out from every wine dealer's house. It la calculated that or.e barrel will strve seven years If properly cared for.
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1900, v. 55, no. 41 (Oct. 13) |
Purdue Identification Number | INFA5541 |
Date of Original | 1900 |
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Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
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agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
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Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
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Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
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agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
Genre | Periodical |
Call Number of Original | 630.5 In2 |
Location of Original | Hicks Repository |
Coverage | Indiana |
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Language | eng |
Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
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Transcript | VOL. LV. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., OCT. 13, 1900. NO. 41 %lxvzvU*xtz _)zpi%vtnxmt How Should an Ice House Be Built? How Harvest and Store Ice so It Will Keep? lst Premium.—In the year 1864, I built my first ice house, after consulting nn old ice man. My studding was of oak pieces, 2x12 inches, 8 feet long, set on a sill of the same size laid on the ground after it had been leveled. My building was 12 feet square from out to out. I lined or boarded this with rough boards, both outside and inside, put on horizontally. This gave me a wall 12 inches thick, well packed with sawdust, and left an ice chamber 10x10 feet, 8 feet high, or 800 cubic feet. I then put on plates and rafters, with a comb roof covered with plank. The gables were covered with shingle inch boards, with a door in one gable, and the boards sawed out between tw6 studding near to the ground for a door to put in and take out ice. These boards were placed back as the house was filled and held by cleats. I marked off my ice on the creek two feet square, and sawed it with an old- cross-cut saw. I hauled and filled the house to the square. The ice cakes being two feet square, five cakes each way filled the house full to the wall, but before putting your ice in- put in six or eight inches of sawdust on the ground. In putting the ice in pound up some ice and fill all crevices, so that the house is a solid mass to the wall. When filled cover with sawdust, and when the weather gets warm the ice will melt some next the wall, leaving a space whieh you should keep filled with sawdust. You will have to chop your ice out. You do not want your house too tight above, but there must be no currents up through the ice. Now, I built the house on the cheaps out of second or third class lumber. We had all the ice we could use and my wife usually had from $20 to $25 in her pocket from sales made when I was in tho field. My house stood in the back ground. If you have to build where your ice house will be conspicuous and vou want it to look well, line it with drop siding and paint. Take out enough ice in the morning to last you through the day, two days is better. I also made an ice chest, as follows: Take a good sized box put in- six inches of sawdust, set in it a smaller box, leaving six inches between to be filled with sawdust. Have a lid to each box, and have cleats on the side, and loose cleats, so that they car.' be removed to put in the ice, and you will have room for such articles as need ice, milk, butter, meat, etc. Set it in the hall or shed for it will drip some. Marion Co. I. N. C. 2d Premium.—Why should any farmer, rich or poor, deny himself and family this greatest of the summer luxuries, when with a small outlay of time and energy, he can have an abundant supply? A farmer of limited means built for himself an ice house that answered the purpose of a more expensive structure. It is simply a bin of rough boards, 15 feet square and roofed over, leaving a large opening at front and sides. He says his ice kept perfectly all the season. He put sawdust a foot or more thick on the ground, then stacked the ice snugly in the center, 20 inches from the walls, then filled in with sawdust and up over the top an equal thickness, packing the saw dust firmly. When he takes the cakes out, they seem to come out as square and perfect as when they were put in. A more convenient, and, I may add, more expensive ice house is made on the north side of what we call a "sawdust cellar." it is 12x14 feet on the outside. The outside walls are made of inch plank, nailed up and down with strips over the cracks. It is also planked up on the inside, leaving a space of 18 inches, which is filled with sawdust. Th sawdust is tramped in and left there from year to year. Eight inches of soil at the bottom was removed. This space is filled with coarse gravel for drainage, and over the gravel is put six inches of sawdust. When the ice is thick it is set within in square blocks. In loading, the blocks are set on edge, fitting in the wagon bed tight as it is less liable to break. Also set them on edge in the bouse- and in tiers one above the other, leaving six inches of space on all sides for sawdust. This leaves the ice iu a square solid mass in the center. Pill tight all around the outside and on top with sawdust well pounded in. Rush Co. M. M. D. REMARKS. The important point in the construction of an ice house is to maintain a non-conductor of heat between the ice and the outside atmosphere. The sawdust-filled spaces described by our correspondents are admirably adopted to this end, and probably nothing better could be devised except at greatly increased cost. One point that has not been touched upon is the advantage of a double roof, or a second roof placed a few inches above the roof proper, with a free circulation of air between them and an outlet at the extreme gable. This will carry off the heat of the direct sun rays, and thus aid materially in protecting the ice. Premiums of $1, 75 cents and 50 cents are given for the first, second and third best articles for the Experience Department each week. Manuscript should be sent direct to the Indiana Farmer Company and should reach us one week before the date of publication. Topics for discussion in future numbers of the Farmer are as follows: No. 241, Oct. 20th—How do you handle chickens during fall and winter? No. 242, Oct. 27th—What changes \rould you advise in the fish and game lows of Indiana? No. 243, Nov. 3.—How keep the boy on the farm? No. 244. Nov. 10.—Give your method of butchering and putting up pork, and show how you make the most of everything. No. 245, Nov. 17.—What is the best way to rent a farm so as to be satisfactory to both tenant and owner, and at the same time keep up the full fertility of the soil? No. 246, Nov. 24.—How will you spend Thanksgiving day? Tell all about the iamily reunions and the good cheer on tbe national holiday. THE TEXAS STORM. Mr. J. T. Huntington, of this city, received the following descriptive letter from his brother, of the great storm that destroyed Galveston, who has been a resident of Texas for about 30 years. It is a miracle that any of his family escaped- Perry's Landing, Tex., Sept. 3. "All of your letters received. We hal opected the State people would buy whatever cane there was in the neighborhood for seed, but after the storm, they, like myself were demoralized, and can't plant any more than they have of thei.- own. I thin-k they have enough to plant 12,000 to 15,000 acres, and as my sugar house is destroyed I will have to plant al! of my cane, which I Ihink will give; me an acreage of 300 acres, which if w> liave a fair season ought to give me a crop of $15,000 to $20,000. The lay alter the storm, the cane looked like a mass of threads, but now it has put out new- leaves and is growing and looks beautiful, of course it was blown down, but is now turned up and is doing its best. The .yes are putting out some, but I don't think it will hurt it much for seed. There are hardly any trees standing, but where there are any they are putting out new leaves and the pear trees are as white ns a snow bank with blooms. I only had two houses partiolly standing. I am putting the houses up as fast as I can, but it is necessarily slow as help is very : earce, and I am haying and plowing for cane as best I can. The negros have all put up little shacks or camps, and seem to be satisfied, but a great many negroes ;ire leaving the country. All my houses in Fort Bend, but three, were blown down. Last year they were washed away ard I replaced them, and this year blown. I think I have lost about 300 head of cat tie, though I can't be certain about tho exact loss until I count them this fall, when we round up. I have advanced the hands on all my places this year, and the cotton crop was a failure. The Mexican weavil and boll worms destroyed it, and instead of making 500 pounds of lint cotton per acre, we will not make 500 to 50 i.eres. If the cotton- crop had been good this year, we would not have felt the storm, as cotton is worth about 10 cents per pound. So tbat what I havo paid out for making crop about $4 500 is gone, except what corn and cane I have. It would take me a week to get the binder out, I had it stored in the northwest corner of the gin, room up stairs, ind the wall and roof timbers fell in and smashed it down to the ground floor and the big brick chimney blew down on top of that, so that it is covered up about 15 feet deep with timber and brick. I think I wrote you that McDuffy, a white man, and two negro children were killed at Ibis place. After we concluded there was a storm on hands, just after dark Saturday evening, we thought Nannie's room the safest, the southeast room, as the wind was blowing from the northwest, thus giving ns the advantage of all th; partition walls, but when the wind got down to business, we tried to -jet out of the house toward where the wind was C( ming from, but could not crawl against it, and knew if we went with it the roofs ind flying timbers would be sure lo kill ls. So the roof soon went and then I thought the heavy joists and flooring above and the ceiling below coidd not be blown off, but the next puff took all that i nd landed it about 400 yards away, and we were bareheaded, without a thit.-g i ver us, and the south wall down level with the ground floor, and we all held together and walked out on the east sidp cf the fallen building and laid down in the water. I got a lick on the head with a brick which knocked me down, but they got me up and I went out with the crowd, and Dan Tata, a white nu'n working for me, was badly cut over the eye, and is l ot well yet, and they say just as w,; went out the other walls fell where we had been standing, at any rate in th morning the brick was 6 feet deep just where we had been standing while the 1 ouse went down. Everyone who saw where we were when the house was, said the Lord must have been with us, Kate got a little frightened whm the gable end begun falling on the upper floor, but we f-oon quieted her and everybody behaved like little soldiers. There must have bee'i 18 inches or 2 feet of water fall that Light, it pelted us so that everybody was sore for a week. We laid in the wate.- until I thought they would chill to death or drowned. We held together and crawled to the frame kitchen and pantry which we expected would be blown on us every minute and by that time a lot of negroes bad collected and I made them hold onto the rafter but we could not get there until nearly mcrning when the wind was not so strong: when the wind was stronger we just had to iie down and hold on lo each other, for if we had turned a child loose it would have been blown away and drowned for every where ther; was a sea of water. The water down the lane from the sugar house to the old 1 urnt house was two or three feet deep next morning Our clock stopped at 15 minutes past 10 o'clock and I suppose thnt was when everything went down. Velasco is blown Pat and there are just a few houses left. The Velasco hotel went abont 5 o'clock in the evening, in fact, most of the town went before night. The walls of the bank ! uilding are still standing, but it is badly wrecked. I think I wrote you that every building oa the Sowwoon State farm went down except tlie captain's house and that badly wrecked. They had about '_'00 prisoners in the building when- it went down, killing 19 and wounding about GO, but they only lost five that ran a i\ay. Brazonia was not hurt much, all the churches blown down was about all; Columbia badly damaged; Angleton, our county seat, nearly all blown down. Richmond nearly all blown down. The storm even blew my tile kiln down, also shed. I thought of all places that would be th1 safest if we could get there but we woul I all have been killed in it. Some of the legroes crawled under the boilers, tbat was the most sensible." CSetie*al flews. Antwerp has tbe hightst chimney in tht; world. It belongs to the silver works company and la 410 feet high. The interior diameter is 25 fejt ut the base and 11 feet at the top. Some 2,000,000 pounds of camphor are consumeJ Ir. the United States yearly. Cairo ia the greatest town of Africa; Its inhabitants number* £.00,000, 25.C00 being Europeans. Moet spiders are possessed of poison-fangs, but very few are dangerous to huim n beings. In 189G, when the harvest w&s abundant, 5,500 tushels of i:pphs were distribotcd In Boston to more than 5,000 applicants. In the rubber forests in Para one latxrer disposes of 100 trees in seven months, securing from 400 to 800 kilogvanimmcs of rubber, of which hj gets half from his employer. Of the 1,070 miles of paved streets in Philadelphia, only 70 remain pi ved with cobble an.l nibble. Manufacturers of birch beer hi^ve been detected fitting down birch trees ln Van Cortlandt Park, Now York, to get the bark to flcvor the llquoi* with. The Departmeiit of Agriculture and Commerce of Japan, predict a splendid rice crop thia year. rIhe average crop b;ing 191,834,200 bushels. A Missouri farmer hss gone into the buslnesi of raising (jii&il. He says thu birds are more easily handled than chickens, and far move pro- titable. While repairing a temple the Chinese cover up the eyes of the idols, in order that the dieties may not be offended at the sight of the disorder. Central New Yoik la particularly a dairy country. A most peculiar thing about 'he marriage ceremony of Russian peasants Is t*" fact that when the couple cuter the church both bridegroom and I vide make a dash for the platform on which is the pulpit. It is believed that the one whose foot touch* a the platform first will live the longer, and that the children will take after that one li size, health and beauty. Mexico promises to be a larg» factor In the orange markets within a year or two, as the d3- vclopment of grovts ihero nas recently been taken up very largely. It is said by an author- in the trade that by 1903 a large part of our oranges will come from Mexico It is generally stipulated in France when wine is sold that ihe purchaser shall re*arn ths barrel :it bis own expense, and the cry, "send back my barrel," is going out from every wine dealer's house. It la calculated that or.e barrel will strve seven years If properly cared for. |
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