| 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 |