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Show PRACTICAL STORAGE HOUSE FOR POTATOES (By A. W. GILMAN.) In sections of the country where potato growing is carried on extensively, exten-sively, most of the farmers have potato po-tato houses or cellars constructed for storing their stock and holding the unsold portion of the crop through even the coldest weather until they can market It. In some localities the crop is stored In pits in the field until it can be marketed, but has to be shipped or laken to some permanent storage before be-fore winter sets in. These pits are made by merely digging off the surface sur-face soil to the depth of a footror a little more, then piling in the potatoes to perhaps three feet above the surface sur-face of the ground. After that they are covered with a layer of straw, and then with the loose soil that was dug off at first. The common typo of store house on the farm is a cellar walled up with concrete or stonework, about eight or nine feet deep, with a low wooden roof above it, giving considerable space for the storage of tools, barrels, etc., on the floor above the cellar portion. por-tion. These cellars are usually built on the side of a bill, so that the potatoes pota-toes are unloaded down through the floor in the fall and taken out at a lower doorway during tha winter. |