[AT] Putting the tractor to use - Ice Houses

[David Bruce]

goring should be growing but with the deer maybe goring is right

David
NW NC

On 6/16/2014 1:20 PM, David Bruce wrote:
> There is a site here that was once an ice pond.  That was long before my
> day but I do remember my grandpa using the area after the dam slipped
> over to grow watermelons and muskmelons.  Just a bit behind my house and
> on my uncle's part of the old farm.  Deer and turkey make goring things
> there these days impossible.
>
> David
> NW NC
>
>
> On 6/16/2014 12:50 PM, charlie hill wrote:
>> My memory is foggy on this but I want to say I can remember
>> when the Milk truck in our area still used blocks of ice to keep the
>> milk cold.  I was born in 1950 and I'm sure it wasn't much later
>> when refrigerated trucks took over so maybe not.  Maybe I'm
>> remembering people talking about it.
>>
>> I surely remember
>> when we had an ice house in town with blocks of ice.  It had a
>> crusher mounted on the outside of the house for folks that needed
>> to crush their ice or you could buy blocks.  Daddy used to buy blocks
>> of ice and put under the salt bench in the smoke house when we
>> were salting and smoking pork in the winter.  The bench was used to
>> salt down the hams, shoulders and sides of bacon.  It was built just
>> the right height for a block of ice to slide under it.
>>
>> Charlie
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