The philosophy of eating. By Albert J. Bellows, M.D.

254 THE COST OF RUNNING A PRESERVATOR.

Common iron, at 7- cents per lb.,.. $210.00
Galvanized iron, No. 26, at 20 cents
per lb.,.... 105.00
Galvanized iron, No. 20, at 18 cents
per lb.,.... 80.00
Other materials to make the whole cost, 800.00
A house seventeen feet square outside, ten feet inside, is estimated to cost four hundred and seventy-five
dollars, and will hold two hundred and fifty bushels.
Large houses, with an entry through the middle,
with five or six rooms on each side, cost about one
dollar for every bushel they hold. Preservators for
family use may be made or placed in the cellar, shed,
in the yard, or any where else where there is room at
an expense but little above that of a common refrigerator, except for the patent, which need be but a trifle
to give the inventor a fortune.
The Cost of Running a Preservator.
In one holding seven thousand bushels of fruit,
the whole cost for a year was but one hundred and
fifty-five dollars, except for ice, and ice costs less
than in a refrigerator of the same capacity, as ice
may be put in all at once for a whole season, and
work from one winter to another without one hour's
additional labor, until the last pound is melted, and
if the construction is perfect, the temperature in the
preservator not vary a single degree. Besides the