Show frostproof FROST PROOF ROOT CELLAR r 11 0 r cofan f adof 1 J tal yasei sv roots should be kept cold roots are 90 per cent water which ac counts tor their shriveling up so when kept in a warm dry place as the moisture evaporates and the roots lose a great part of their feeding valie on the other hand it the eel lar Is warm and moist they rot badly roots should not freeze but they will stand a little frosty weather without injury you can keep a few bushels of garden carrots packed in sand in a box in your house cellar if ou keep the cellar window open san 1 keeps the air away from the carrots and the open window keeps the cellar cool so they neither rot sprout nor shrivel carrots kept like this are just as nice in the spring as they are in the fall roots when grown in large ties for block must be kept on the same gereral plan the air in the root cellar mast be cool clean and dry when this tact is well understood we will get along better n building a root cellar we must provide appo site windows to be left open in the tall until d freezing w eather then we must have ventilators in the root to be left opan all winter this plan provides for a shallow ex ca into a bank it you have one with a cement wall eight feet high all around if the cellar is built in a 11 hill leave a roadway on the up afe alde so you can fill it easily the belling jol s are imbedded in this wall while it is soft A thin narrow strip is laid in the soft ce mant to rest the ends of the joists on to keep them even after putting them in place luald the ventilator shafts the belling boarding is then nailed on the under side of the ceiling joists and the cement concrete Is filled in on the top between the joists and over them about one to three inches mak ing the top of the cellar about ten inches thick in the center and be tween six and seven inches at the sides to drain the water off then a plaster coat 1 growled on top of this to shed water this plaster coat is mixed one cement to two parts aai sharp san 1 alft the roof Is fin dished it is kept wet a week so it will dry hard without cracking A wooden slide Is fitted to the hot torn of each root ventilator but ie sel dom closed it la well however to have it in case of extreme cold er just to slide in at night to be opened out again the next day |