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water, about a pint to each plant; if the season is unusually dry, one 

 or two later applications are very helpful. 



WINTER STORAGE 



A good outside pit or cellar for the storage of roots and other crops is 

 of great use on the farm. The cellar should have room enough to ac- 

 commodate all the vegetables needed or raised for the winter. It should 

 have good ventilation, also, and should be built so that the vegetables 

 will never be in danger of freezing. An outside cellar is more desirable 



Fig. 34. — Wheel cultivator and attachments 



than the house cellar, because the latter does not provide proper venti- 

 lation for successful storage nor is it a healthful place for such a purpose. 

 If time is pressing or cellar space is limited, the root crops and cabbages 

 may be stored in the field: straw being laid on the ground, the crops 

 piled in on the straw, more straw added, and, as the piles are generally 

 conical in form, dirt applied over the straw. Other rubbish and dirt may 

 be added as the weather grows colder. Some work is necessary, however, to 

 dig out the stored vegetables after the layers of dirt have been frozen solid. * 



*For further information on storage, the reader is referred to Lesson 21 of the Cornell Reading-Course 

 for the Farm Home. 



