A SELF-SUPPORTING HOME 



moderate sized roots, and transfer to the 

 cellar. We cut empty sugar barrels in half, 

 arranged them in a dark corner of the cellar, 

 placed the rhubarb roots in them, packing 

 sand all around the root until the half-tub 

 was full. Thus treated, they yielded a boun- 

 tiful supply of stalks in January and Febru- 

 ary. The other roots can be split up into 

 pieces about a foot square, and replanted 

 two feet apart, in rows three feet apart. 



Celery, carrots, and such vegetables for 

 home use are best kept in wooden trenches 

 ten inches wide and twelve inches deep, to 

 be divided by a partition of wood every two 

 or three feet; so preventing the vegetables 

 heating, as they would if the entire length of 

 the trench was left unbroken. We have one 

 cellar lined by tiers of these receptacles. 

 Dry, sandy mould, to the depth of about 

 three inches, is put into the bottom of each 

 for the roots to stand in, so keeping the stalks 

 or tubers upright, as when growing. Pack 

 as closely as possible, and the contents will 



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