Show STORAGE HOUSES IN INDIFFERENT INDIFFERENT INDIFFERENT DIFFERENT SECTIONS Insulated Potato House Is Best Adapted to South Aroostook Type Is Distinctively a Product of Maine and Confined Largely to That State West State West Uses Storage Cellars Prepared by tho the United States Department Department Depart Depart- Department ment of or Agriculture The insulated potato house Is not used extensively and und as us a rule Is better better better bet bet- ter adapted to southern than to northern northern northern north north- ern climates The construction feature feature feature fea fea- ture of such a house Is the thorough insulation of Its walls ceilings doors and windows In northern locations such a house must be heated b by a stove The Aroostook t type pe of storn storage e house bouse with concrete or masonry walls and wooden superstructure n IR distinctively a product of at Maine Moine and confined largely to that state It I lg expensive and ancI Is always alwa's located on a aside aside aside side hill hili or knoll In order that ad ad- I vantage ma may be taken of ot a ground level entrance The basements are usually from 8 to 12 feet deep and most of them have a capacity of several several several sev sev- eral thousand barrels Generally the only pro provision pro ision for ventilation is by trapdoors In the floor through which the filling of ot the bins is completed Occasionally a ventilator is found In Inthe Inthe inthe the roof These houses although practical In Maine l will never supersede the lug lug- out pit or storage cellar now used In Inthe Inthe Inthe the middle and far western states Each of these t types pes of storage has distinctive features which peculiarly adapt It to Its own environment but do not necessarily preclude use In other localities The artificially refrigerated potato storage house Is confined practically to the storage of northern grown seed potatoes held in cold storage for second second second sec sec- ond crop planting In the South It Is thought that community storage cold plants of this type could be bp profitably used b by the southern truck growers |