Winter Storage 



Most winter vegetables need to be kept in cold 

 storage, not in a warm, dry place ; for this reason 

 a furnace-heated cellar is not satisfactory, but an 

 adjoining room that is connected by a door that 

 can be opened to admit warm air in a severe spell 

 of winter weather is desirable. For certain roots 

 that are not injured by a low temperature, or 

 even slight freezing, an earth cellar is satisfac- 

 tory. A cellar of this sort usually admits of 

 piling vegetables on the floor or in pens on the 

 floor and throwing dirt over them to exclude the 

 air and prevent evaporation, and as the vege- 

 tables are used the surplus earth can be thrown 

 out on the floor and the labor of storing is much 

 lessened, for it is no small task to carry heavy 

 baskets of earth into the vegetable cellar and to 

 remove it again in the spring. If a small room 

 can be arranged adjoining the cellar proper and 

 bins divided off around the sides and the earth 

 allowed to remain from year to year the task of 

 winter storage will be slight. Beets, carrots, 

 turnips, cabbage, parsnips, salsify, celery, all 

 these things belong in the earth cellar and apples, 



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