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The Ice Crop: How to Harvest, Store, Ship and Use Ice

Chapter 17: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
By Theron L. Hiles
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A practical late-19th-century manual surveying the history and commercial growth of the ice trade and offering step-by-step guidance on harvesting, storing, transporting, and selling natural ice. It covers legal and sanitary practices, construction and management of commercial and farm ice houses, use of ice in refrigeration and transport, and discussion of artificial ice-making and cold-air machines. Practical tips address care, marketing, small-scale farm needs, and technical details for cutting and packing. The volume closes with miscellaneous hints and numerous recipes and preparations for chilled foods and beverages.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

Fig.   Page.
  1. Clearing-off scraper 17
  2,3,4. Snow scoop scrapers 18
  5. Ice auger 20
  6. Measure 20
  7. Tapping axe 20
  8. Field planer 21
  9. Marker, with swing guide 22
10. Field plow 22
11. Swing guide plows 22
12. Hand plow 24
13. Plow rope 24
14. Line marker 24
15. Braces for channel with swift current 26
16. Brace for slow current 27
17. Best cast steel ice saws 28
18. Two-prong fork bar 28
19. Three-prong fork bar 28
20. Four-prong bar 28
21. Calking bar 28
22. Breaking bar 28
23. Ice hooks 31
24. Elevator feeding fork 31
25. Chain scoop net 31
26. Sieve shovel 31
27. Ring handle splitting chisel 31
28. Channel hook chisel 31
29. Needle bar 31
30. Toothed trimmer bars, iron handle 33
31. Toothed trimmer bars 33
32. Jack grapple 33
33. Handle grapple 33
34. Channel grapple 33
35. Wooden skid, No. 1 36
36. Wooden skid, No. 2 36
37. Wagon and loading tongs 36
38. Packing chisel 36
39. Packing chisel 36
40. Hoisting tongs 38
41. Drag tongs 38
42. Edging tongs 38
43. Ice adze 38
44, 45. Interior view of old style ice cellar 44
46–49. Modern ice pit 44, 46, 48
50. Section of elevator incline and platform conveyors 50
51. Elevation of platform along tracks for loading cars 52
52. Section of loading platforms 52
53. Hoisting gigs and reversing engines 54
54. House ice saw 57
55. Raising chisel bar 57
56. Striking-under bar 57
57. Dunnage shovel 57
58. Lowering gig and track 59
59. A popular ice wagon 61
60. Another ice wagon 61
61. Sample delivery ice wagon 64
62. Wagon scale 66
63. Ice shave 66
64. Wagon axe 66
65. Wagon saw 66
66. Wagon ice tongs 66
67. Ground floor 68
68. Section of house 69
69. Section of wall 69
70. Exterior view of cold storage house 70
71. Section view of combined ice house and dairy 70
72. Perspective view of creamery 72
73. Ground plan of creamery 72
74. Cold storage house combined with dairy 74
75. Section of refrigerating tank 75
76. Section view of cold storage house and dairy 76
77. Ground plan of freezing tank and bench 77
78. End view of freezing tank 77
79–81. Suggestions for cheap ice houses 78
82. Barn-corner ice house 79
83. A loading platform 81
84. Embankment platform 81
85, 86. Lifts for loading ice into sleds 81
87. A cheap ice scraper 82
88. A fruit retarding house in Florida, which uses refrigerating machinery 89
89. Perspective view of fruit cellar 97
90. Cross section of fruit cellar 98
91. Perspective view of fruit house 99
92. Section of floor and ceiling 100
93. Ice crushing machine 105
94. A power ice crusher 111