CHAPTER FOURTEEN 

 STORING VEGETABLES IN WINTER 



V EGETABLES, which have been grown to perfection 

 during the summer months and gathered while at 

 their best, will deteriorate rapidly unless proper 

 care is exercised in storing them away for the win- 

 ter. Many of the methods employed by market 

 gardeners and on farms where large quantities of 

 fruit and vegetables are grown, and must be stored 

 for sale at a time when they will bring a price much 

 in advance of that which will prevail in the fall 

 and early winter, are not practicable in the small 

 home garden. 



Any dry, frost-proof cellar will keep potatoes 

 in good condition providing the precaution is ob- 

 served of airing the cellar regularly and persist- 

 ently. The most common mistake in storing fruit 

 and vegetables in the cellar of the house is in the 

 direction of too much heat and too little air. It is 

 rarely that the cellar windows require to be closed 



