THE POTATO 135 



There is no limit to the ingenuity of the builder 

 in providing conveniences in the way of sorting 

 rooms and divisions in a potato cellar. 



It is hard to conceive a well-planned, diversified 

 farm anywhere in the temperate zone that is com- 

 plete without a storage cellar for potatoes and 

 other vegetables. A "hoed" crop, requiring deep, 

 thorough cultivation, is an important factor in a 

 rotation of crops, and a business farmer is not 

 living up to his possibilities when he grows a crop 

 that for lack of storage facilities he must sell in a 

 short time after its maturity, thereby placing him- 

 self at the mercy of the middleman and retailer. 



In the well-regulated farm we have in mind a 

 fairly definite proportion of the farm would be in 

 potatoes and roots each year, one part of the 

 potatoes to be sold at digging time, the balance 

 held for later marketing; and a quantity of roots 

 always stored for livestock feeding. This system 

 makes a storage cellar as important a factor as the 

 stock barns. 



Following are specifications for the potato cellar 

 illustrated: 



To be built with eight-inch concrete walls with 

 six -inch footing, one foot below floor line. Inside 

 width thirty-six feet, making twenty-seven feet 

 storage space and a nine-foot driveway. Length 

 to accommodate the amount of potatoes to be 

 stored. Height of side walls seven feet from floor 

 line, three and one half feet underground level, 

 centre ten feet from floor line. Heavy posts to 

 be set every ten feet along each side of driveway. 

 Round posts would answer for this purpose as 

 well as the more expensive sawed lumber. 



On top of these posts is run a ten-inch by ten- 



