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Show STORING CROPS FOR WINTER Cellar Should Be Carefully Cleaned and All Defects in Walls Made Tight With Mortar. (By WALTER B. LEUTZ.) - Have the cellar carefully cleaned before be-fore storing away any of the winter supply. If there are defects in the wall make them tight with mortar. If the windows are loose, repair them. These little things may be the means of saving the entire contents of the cellar. If the potatoes incline to rot, sort carefully and put in no questionable specimens. Dust the seemingly perfect per-fect ones with lime. If the winter squashes are picked before they become fully ripe they will be much more apt to mold and rot Make the cabbage heads which incline in-cline to burst into kraut. If you fear trouble In keeping it cook part and putN into cans, sealing with paraffin. The solid heads need not be put into the cellar until November, but may be left growing. Do not despise the small beets, turnips tur-nips and apples. The stock will need them if you do not. And it is astonishing aston-ishing how much stuff of this kind chickens require to keep them at their best. Give them the parings now and save the small fruit or vegetables for winter use. If you havs more stuff than you need and it, is not of sufficiently good quality to offer for sale, perhaps some neighbor could use it to advantage. Many a poor man is glad to get even the culls and windfalls from a large orchard and the latter is the better for their removal. |