AGRICULTURAL SURVEY OF cbaf. FIT. 



spaces of one foot wide between may be either 

 left open, or loosely filled with coarse straw or 

 furze, or any thing else that will admit a ready 

 circulation of air. Though the side walls are 

 supposed to be only eight feet high, yet by 

 beam-filling, the apartments may be raised to 

 the height of 10 feet, if necessary. 



The advantages of this plan are obvious. The 

 apartments being no .more than four feet wide, 

 the body of potatoes is not very thick. The 

 heat and moisture have an opportunity of escap- 

 ing easily, and passing off through the open 

 spaces between. And should it happen that 

 the potatoes j through the badness of the wea- 

 ther, have not been got up perfectly dry, the 

 risk, arising from this circumstance, will be less, 

 as they will be more accessible to the air, which 

 may be admitted by keeping the door open in 

 dry windy weather, for some time after they are 

 put up. It is unnecessary to observe, that, dur- 

 ing frosty weather, they should be completely 

 secured at all points against its entrance. If it 

 shall be found proper to turn over the potatoes 

 in the winter or spring, with a view to clear 

 them of earth, and to pick out the frosted and 

 unsound, the method of putting them up in se- 

 parate divisions will also facilitate this operation. 

 Before it bcomes necessary, it is probable that 

 one of the apartments at least may be emptied 

 for the use of the family. The next may then 

 be overhauled, and as the potatoes are picked 

 and cleaned, they can be thrown into the empty 

 one ; and so on with all the rest, proceeding 

 more expeditiously or more leisurely, as time 



