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usually pressing, and allows the period of their permanent 

 pitting to be extended into a comparatively cold season. 

 This is found to be of the utmost importance in preserving 

 all kinds of roots; the same rules regulating the preserva- 

 tion in winter, apply as in spring sowing. While in this 

 section of the country it must be done not later than the 

 end of November, in some of the Southern States the 

 time may be extended a month later, while in places 

 where the thermometer does not fall lower than 25 

 above zero, there is no need to dig up any of these roots 

 at all, as that degree of cold would not injure them. 



The permanent pit is made as follows : A piece of 

 ground is chosen where no water will stand in winter. 

 If not naturally drained, provision must be made to carry 

 off the water. The pit is then dug four feet deep and 

 six feet wide, and of any length required. The roots are 

 then evenly packed in sections of about four feet wide, 

 across the pit, and only to the height of the ground level. 

 Between the sections a space of half a foot is left, which 

 is filled up with soil level to the top. This gives a section 

 of roots four feet deep and wide, and four feet long, each 

 section divided from the next by six inches of soil, form- 

 ing a series of small pits, holding from six to twelve bar- 

 rels of roots, one of which can be taken out without 

 disturbing the next, which is separated from it by six 

 inches of soil. 



SCOTCH METHOD OF WINTERING ROOTS. 



Mr. Crozier practises, with great success, the Scotch 

 method of preserving root crops in winter, which he thus 

 describes : 



A dry spot being selected, where no water will stand in 

 winter, a space is marked out six feet in width, and of any 



