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How THE FARM PAYS. 



degree of temperature would not injure them. The permanent pit 

 is made as follows: 



A piece of ground is chosen where no water will stand in winter. 

 If not naturally drained, provision must be made to carry off the 

 water. The pit is then dug four feet deep and six feet wide, and of 

 any length required. The roots are then evenly packed in sections 

 of about four feet wide, across the pit, and only to the height of the 

 ground level. Between the sections a space of half a foot is left, 

 which is filled up with soil level to the top. This gives a section of 

 roots four feet deep and wide, and four feet long, each section divided 

 from the next by six inches of soil, forming a series of small pits, 

 holding from six to twelve barrels of roots, one of which can be taken 

 out without disturbing the next, which is separated from it by six 

 inches of soil. 



(Mr. C. ) Scotch farmers have a method of keeping roots in long 

 pits which I have used here for many years. A dry spot is selected, 



ROOT PIT UNFINISHED. 



where no water will stand in winter; a space is marked out six feet 

 in width, and of any length required ; this bed is excavated ten to 

 twelve inches deep, and the soil is thrown out on the bank. The 



MANNER OF COVERING THE PIT. 



roots are built up evenly to a sharp point about five or six feet in 

 height, so that they form almost an equal-sided triangle, six feet on 

 the sides. This heap of roots is covered with four inches of straw 

 and the earth is banked over the whole about one foot in thickness. 



