Show storing vegetables 1 to enjoy palatable rud ami wholesome I 1 I 1 vegetables ege tables a luring th tha a winter vinter months I 1 proper care cara still anil attention are last just as i 1 1 1 essential in harvesting and storing econn sa as ia cultivation roots hoots and vegetables as 83 they are ara often thrown in ill heaps about the alio collar cellar do soon loso loaa their freshness nod and flavor our house collars are ara too warm for the best preservation of vegetables vegetable a sad add it is in tho therefore there fora advisable to etora atom only a limited quantity for foe immediate use uan ia the house while the ilia main stock should be kept IQ in a cool barn collar bellr or in an oat ant door pit buell a pit for or family use UBI I 1 ia easily made mada by digging a trench about three or four feet wido wide and of tile tha same earno depth anil and us long as necessary taking ajro to select a where the water cannot bland at the approach of winter the tha pit is is filled up to the level of 0 tho the ground with the roots to be wintered bests beets turnips narrate eto etc nor nar tow row partitions of boil may be placed longitudinally between betwee nt the different kinds so that each may be taken out I 1 separately this thia dividing of the fit pit into it I 1 several sections Beo tiona has the add tinned ional t I 1 advantage of making the balk of each I 1 smaller lar lairee e qute aties of toots roots in ipa 11 I 1 41 I 1 l one maw mass are I 1 liable 1 at to to a do not keep ia as well as smaller lots Tn pot ot I 1 1 uro are then covered with 0 enough boil six air inches to 0 o protect them against lak tha the V t frosti of early winter 1 when bovera cold sets aota in about the I 1 rhiddie of december more soil boil la is thrown on not less lees than two feet every part of the pit sloping off on towards the tha aides anil and tire surface Bur taco firmly packed I 1 clown iwa with the backof bicok of a brads assade with heavy soil boil this will bo be sufficient to turn tarn oft off the imin ruin and aad the snow water but in sandy soil it is is bettor better to add an additional protection cf straw or boarde where a pit is ia not practicable and the entire crop has to bo be stored in a cell calar ir the iho roots intended for late keeping bould should be carefully care tally selected only sound solid bolij roots keep well these 11 should bu be laid daiil loosely in thin layers into fato blue bins or barrels and each layer covered with fiand so BO that none ol of the roots alre exposed to the light the purer tho the air can be kept in ia the iba collar cellar and the cooler without freezing tho the better will the vegetables vego keep in it colons bear a considerable degree of cold without injury provided they are kept dry and not handled while frozen froze nr 11 packed in ia sawdust chaff or cat cut strAw they may be kept all winter in ia an oat I 1 t house or burn barn squashes tre a r injured I 1 nj ared ly by MI I 1 frosts and be bakert kept 1 in I otvar ft vAr dry storeroom store room rather than in T rhe sweet potatoes pota tOBa we find in the tha markets mar keti are arc kept la ia honeg expressly built for the ali purpose pur poso the necessary conditions for foe their hair keeping are that the tubers IMO are ea entirely try dry before storing and limb the temperature of the roo room does not cot tall fall below sixty degrees we hito have kept alom in ia good condition till spring ia a packed with sawdust in A barrel common anion ur irish potatoes are not injured by a few degrees of cold provided ro the cellar in ia which they are dept kept ia a dry in very dry storage rooms po t amoeo should bo be covered with soil or sand as ad directed for roots to prevent them from shri shrivelling velling and early sprouting in ordinary collars they nay may be kept loose loosa in ia barrels or bins bilis when the collar cellar floor door is ia damp or wet at ai ti if zipa as 28 is unfortunately often the case in farmhouses the bins or barrels should be raised a few inches irom from the ground so 10 R as to admi t free circulation of air american Amet ican gardener darkener dar dener |