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around the bulb and this protects them to a certain 

 extent from serious damage. 



PITTING OR CLAMPING 



The best way to store mangolds is in a clamp on a 

 piece of dry, level land. No hole should be dug, as is 

 often done when potatoes are stored, but the roots 

 simply laid on the level surface. At the base the clamp 

 should be about 5 feet wide, the sides being built up 

 and gradually inclined inwards. The finished clamp 

 will then be shaped like a triangle. 



In forming the clamp the long mangolds should, of 

 course, be used for building up the sides and ends, the 

 small ones being thrown into the middle of the clamp. 



STRAW THATCH 



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The best method of building the mangold 

 clamp. 



When built, about 6 inches of loose straw should be 

 thrown over the clamp and later a layer of straight 

 straw put on this and made secure by twine and pegs 

 in the same way as a haystack is thatched. 



It is only in the colder districts where the frosts are 

 very severe that any additional covering would be 

 necessary. In such districts a thin layer, say, 3 or 4 

 inches of earth, can be placed over the thatched straw. 



