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The Care of Babies: Place

Now put three inches of sawdust in the bottom. Place two pails in this sawdust one inside of the other and fill the space between the inner and outer with sawdust. Fill the space between the outer pail and box with sawdust. Place the nursing bottle filled with milk in the inner pail and cover it with a tin cover. Now fill the outer pail over and around the Vertical section of homemade milk refrigerator; S, sawdust; T, cylinder of tin or galvanized iron; C, can or pail, in which is placed the milk bottle m, surrounded by broken ice, I; N, newspapers nailed to lid of case. Courtesy Health Department of Chicago. milk bottle in the pail and pack broken ice about the bottle. A refrigerator of this description will hold two quart bottles of milk, or four eight-ounce feeding bottles. It can be operated for about two cents per day. To prevent rusting, a little soda may be placed in the can each day. The little expense involved is inner pail with cracked ice. Put on the lid and keep the ice box in a cool shady place.