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Show CELLAR FOR COLD STORAGE. I Type of One Which Can Do Built at 'H Small Expense. An Inquiry regnrdlng nn outsldo vcgetnblo cellar reminds mo ot tho trouble I had keeping my dahlia roots In my homo cellar. I havo a hot-nlr furnace, and I lost so ninny roots by drying thnt I was forced to get them Perhaps a plan of my cellar would bo of Interest to your renders. I used a a glass cover, ns I had always wanted ' to do my cold-frnmo work without breaking my back, and, If possible, SECTION OF CELLAR.' 1, Earth Floor; 2, Loose Floor; 3, Denchcs; 4, Eight-Inch Concrete Wall; 5, Double-Boarded Air-Space; C, Ground Level; 7, Sodded Banked without freezing to death. As I had to cover It anyway, I figured thnt tho lncrensed cost ot tho cover ns It In would not bo much more than tho shingled roof, nnd would give me n place to work on sunny spring days, when tho balmy breeze from otd Lnkn Erlo would tear tho hair from an Es-klmo Es-klmo dog, writes a Lake county (O.) farmer In Country Gentleman. I had an Idea that by putting tho floor In loosely the warm air from tho collar would help to keep It from frccz- H Ing, but I was mistaken; It holpcd the cellar to freeze. I uso an old stovn and leavo tho ventilators open. Set tho stovo In n box connected with tho outsldo nnd don't havo any trouble getting nlr enough. I plnnted lettuce, radishes nnd astern (early ones) last spring, on March C. Aftor tho seed enmo up, tempcrnturo wont to 12 degrees, but I got thorn jH through In good shnpo. Of course, If It hnd stayed long I couldn't; lwns only two nights. I may add ns a caution that' most portions who build this houso will havo to supply opportunity for, drainage, which I don't need on my polous soil. Tho totnl cost of tho 12 by 'It foot collar to mo was G5, |