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KEEPING THE GARDEN PRODUCE 



necessary, not to kill bacteria to begin with, but only to 

 prevent their too rapid growth in the stored produce. 



Potatoes, we all know, need only to be stored in dry bins 

 where they will not freeze and where the temperature will 

 be between forty and thirty-three degrees Fahrenheit. 



Onions need only a little more care. They would spoil 

 if piled up in deep bins, like potatoes ; but they will keep 

 if spread in thin layers on a garret floor, or if stored in 



MEETING OF A TOMATO CANNING CLUB. 



shallow boxes that are piled up in any dry cool place in such 

 a way as to let the air circulate a little through the contents. 

 Cabbages need to be placed so that they will not touch 

 one another, and then to be covered with a few inches of 

 dry straw or dry sand. Freezing is not hurtful, if there 

 is not too much thawing and freezing ; and so, in cold 

 regions, if room is lacking in the cellar, this vegetable may 

 be kept in the way just described in shallow trenches out- 

 of-doors, for use the following spring. For winter use, it 

 is usually enough to wrap the heads in dry paper and pile 

 them up on cellar shelves. 



