Show ventilation in storing fruits and vegetables fruits and vegetables put in storage tills this fall should have lots of ventilation ti during the first few weeks fruits ripen even after being picked and should be given every opportunity to reathe reat be A shaded shed or corn crib Is as good a place as any available on the ordinary farm tor for tall fall storage if the fruit or vegetables begin to wilt or shrivel the air Is too dry moisture way may be added by placing pans of water in the room or by sprinkling the floor every day dry heat will cause spoiling more rapidly than any other condition before freezing weather comes carrots bets bt ets and similar root crops can be burled buried in an outdoor pit the dirt should be removed for about a toot foot down into the ground and this pit lined with straw the roots are then piled up in a peaked cone and covered with about six inches of straw the straw is covered with tour to six inches of dirt excepting at the top where a kind of chimney or flue Is in made de by letting the straw stick out through the dirt this will give ventilation ti during the early part of the winter f t the weather becomes very cold another layer of straw and dirt may be added and the ventilator may be closed up almost entirely the pit should be opened up early in the spring |