CUTTING ICE FOR STORAGE
MOTOR-DRIVEN SAW Although much of the ice used for refrigerating purposes in the big cities is produced artificially, the business of cutting natural ice still is an important one in the northern State of America and in the provinces of Canada. The cutters wait until the ice on a lake has frozen to a depth of a foot or more, and then get to work. They mark off the surface of the lake with a marking plough, dividing it into small squares of a size easily handled. Then the ice is sawed and the blocks pulled up on an inclined chute to the ice house. Here the ice is stored in layers under a packing of sawdust. The sawdust keeps the air from reaching the ice, which usually lasts through the following summer or until it is used, some time in the succeeding warm season.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6835, 16 April 1932, Page 5
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