Show Lack Cellar Dig Storage i PIt to Get Same Results Famil es that lack a good i cellar eIther under a budding or outdoors can get sa satisfactory results with Ith one of several types of storage p ts is To make a pit select a wen well drained place In the garden or some someplace someplace place convenient to the kitchen The pit may be of any convenient size but It IS more satisfactory to toI tomake I make several small pIts rather than one large one When a storage p t i is once opened It IS best to remove all the contents at once hence the I advisability of small pitS It IS best I I to store small es of all root crops In each pit It will w l then be beI I necessary to open only one pit to get geta a supply of all vegetables A convenient size IS one that Will I hold two to three bushels To make a pit of this sIze d g out SIX or ore ore e Inches of sOil from an area I three to four feet In dIameter Lay I three or four inches of dry straw or orI cornstalks In the bottom and pile I the vegetables m in a cone CO Corer COer er the thep p pile e eIth with Ith a layer of straw or corn cornI cornstalks cornstalks I stalks and over this place a layer of dIrt three Inches deep As WInter approaches increase the d rt cover covering log ing until It IS about SIX Inches deep and m in areas where the winter IS very cold make the dirt 10 to 12 inches deep For vent lat on leave a small opening at the top allowing the straw covering to come through the dIrt Cover thIS openIng with two pIeces of board na nailed ed together at two edges and weight thIs do with Ith two stones DIg a shallow trench around the pIt so that It will dram drain off ram I ater water |