STORING VEGETABLES IN WINTER 



before December, but in many cases they will be 

 hermetically sealed at the approach of the first hard 

 frost. This is not only bad for the contents of the 

 cellar, but far worse for the people who dwell above 

 the cellar. Where there is a heating plant in the 

 cellar it is essential that there should be vegetable 

 rooms separate from that devoted to furnace or 

 boiler, and where this does not exist, an end of the 

 cellar, at least, should be partitioned off for the 

 purpose, though it may be but by a rough board 

 partition; this as well as anything will shut out 

 heat. Such a room should include one or more of 

 the cellar windows, and preferably those on the 

 sunny side of the house. 



For the storing of potatoes there is no better ar- 

 rangement than bins made long and narrow and 

 with partitions through the centres, making com- 

 partments which will hold from one to three bush- 

 els of potatoes. There should be a number of large 

 auger holes in the bottom of each and the bins 

 should be elevated on some sort of supports to a 

 foot or more from the floor. It must be remem- 

 bered that cold falls and that the bottom of the 

 cellar is much the coldest part of it, and where 

 there is danger of frost, the floor of the cellar is 



