PRACTICAL GARDENING 



If the pit is only five feet long, place a ven- 

 tilator in the center. Pile the vegetables 

 around the ventilator to a height of four feet 

 and cover the mound-shaped pile with six to 

 eight inches of straw. As the weather grows 

 colder, cover the mound with sufficient soil to 

 keep out the frost. It is not a bad idea to 

 throw a strip of canvas over the mound early 

 in the fall to keep out the rain until suffi- 

 cient soil is added to shed the water. Open 

 the pit at one end and stuff the hole with suffi- 

 cient straw to keep the frost out after desired 

 vegetables have been removed. Cabbage may 

 be buried three tiers high by standing the cab- 

 bage head down on the straw. Cabbage 

 should be the last crop to store, for it quickly 

 decays in warm weather. Remove only the 

 partly decayed leaves and do not disturb the 

 roots. (See Fig. 60.) 



The Vegetable Cellar. The great difficulty 

 with most of the cellars is that there has been 

 no forethought regarding a vegetable store 

 room and the furnace and pipes are so placed 



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