104 GARDEN FARMING 



Cauliflower can also be held in cold storage for several weeks. 

 The heads must be carefully crated so as to protect them from 

 mechanical injury and so wrapped as to protect them from pressure 

 or moisture, which would cause discoloration. The storage period 

 for cauliflower is much shorter than for cabbage, but the tempera- 

 ture requirements are much the same 32 F. with low humidity. 



Potatoes can be successfully held in cold storage, but as a com- 

 mercial enterprise this is seldom profitable or desirable, except 

 when it is necessary to hold seed potatoes in a dormant condition 

 for planting late in the season. This practice is followed to some 

 extent by Southern growers, to enable them to hold Northern-grown 

 seed of the previous season's crop for July planting, in order that 

 they may produce seed for the succeeding year. 



In some localities where the forcing of rhubarb is a profitable 

 industry, and winter conditions are not favorable for forcing it 

 by the ordinary method, the roots can be placed in cold storage, 

 frozen for a short period, removed, and successfully forced. Many 

 other crops, such as beets, carrots, turnips, parsnips, cabbage, cauli- 

 flower, celery, and onions, can be successfully held in cold storage, 

 but it is seldom necessary to handle them in this way. 



The greatest good to the vegetable industry is to come from 

 the use of refrigerator cars in connection with careful handling, 

 special packing and grading, and the precooling of highly perish- 

 able products that are to be shipped long distances. 



