122 FRUIT HARVESTING, STORING, MARKETING 



of milk, dishes of butter, and remnants of yesterday's 

 dinner. There may be ' ' caves ' ' and dugouts in the 

 east, but I have never seen them. Even the word 

 ' ' cave ' ' in this connection is, I think, of the west, 

 western. 



The dugout is made by digging into a hillside, if 

 one is available, and making the walls of earth so far 

 as possible. Sometimes the walls are lined with 

 boards, and sometimes these lining-boards are run round 

 on studding set against the earth walls. Sometimes, 

 however, and not seldom, the earth walls are unlined. 

 Even the roof is commonly made of earth. Rough 

 beams are laid for a ridge pole and rafters; these are 

 covered with brush, and the earth is shoveled on. A 

 well-built and properly managed ' ' cave ' ' of this sort 

 will grow a crop of pigweeds on top. The last desid- 

 eratum has been secured when a grass turf is settled 

 over the roof, but good luck seldom goes so far as that 

 in Oklahoma. 



A ventilator is sometimes put into the conventional 

 dugout; sometimes not. For purposes of storage a 

 good ventilator is highly important (and I think it 

 would be appreciated by the crowded occupants on 

 cyclone nights) . The dugout necessarily has a door 

 also, but it seldom or never has a window. 



According to my rather extensive observation of 

 these examples of farm buildings, they would be greatly 

 improved for storage purposes by the adoption of some 

 rational means of ventilation. This might be provided 

 by making a good-sized flue on top at the end opposite 

 the door, and by making a cold-air inlet in the bottom 

 of the door. A sliding window two feet square in the 



