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Cellars in general being more or less damp, besides the 

 very large quantity required to be heaped together to fill 

 these ; the expense of making them and ventilating the 

 beets, when in such masses, to prevent heating and fer- 

 mentation are serious obstacles to this method. 



Store-houses incontestably offer the most convenient and 

 best method of presevation for the beet, they should be near 

 the sugar works. The walls should be of sufficient thick- 

 ness to prevent the frost from penetrating ; they should 

 have sky-lights, sufficient for the work-men there employ- 

 ed, but no w^indows. 



The beets are disposed in layers of 15 to 16 feet high, 

 and not more, because the weight of these columns press- 

 ing always on the lower strata, might injure them if in- 

 creased. To prevent this, before the roots are brought to 

 the ware-house, bundles of brush wood are disposed on 

 the floor or ground six inches deep, then piles of these of a 

 foot thick are placed eight feet apart, and in the intervals 

 are stowed away the beets ; each pile of brush wood doing 

 the duty of a ventilator, constantly renewing, the air; a 

 passage should be preserved the whole length of the build- 

 ing, so that in case of any appearance of fermentation at 

 any point, the injured roots might be easily removed. 



A cubic yard of beets w411 generally weigh about 1350 

 lbs. Let us suppose that 6,000,000lbs. are to be worked 

 up during the 5 months, that the manufactory is in opera- 

 tion, and that for two months of that time the roots will 

 be used as taken from the field 3-5ths only or 3, 600,000 

 lbs. require to be stored for the supply of the sugar works, 

 for the last three months. To find the number of cubic 

 yards required in a building for this purpose, it is only to 

 divide the 3,600,000 by 1350 (the weight of a cubic yard 

 of beets,) this gives us 2666 and a fraction, as the whole 

 number of cubic yards to be provided for. 



