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TENT 
In our scheme of things the tent has proved most 
useful and has solved several problems both in planting 
and digging during stormy weather. It is stretched 
over a light portable frame made of 1x4 lumber. It is 
eight feet wide and ten feet long. Each side rests on a 
1x4 which acts as a sled runner. One man can easily 
slide it about. Being eight feet wide the runners just 
fit in the paths on either side of a bed seven feet wide. 
Two persons can easily lift the tent from bed to bed. 
Two or three tents make it possible to protect that 
many beds from the rain in the spring, and we can 
thus plant our sprouted bulblets regardless of the 
weather. Then during the summer the tents are useful 
as places for the storing of fertilizers. 
As we desire to delay digging till just before freez¬ 
ing weather comes in the fall so as to give as many 
bulblets as possible time to grow and ripen, the tents 
will be of great value as protection from the rains and 
cold winds when digging. Placed over a bed a day or 
two in advance the bed will be dry enough to dig re- 
gardess of the fact that we may be having quite'heavy 
rains. And if we are busy at the office or elsewhere 
during the day and desire to do some digging of an 
evening by lantern light they afford protection from 
the cold winds. 
STORAGE 
The bulb house should contain at least two storage 
rooms, one of which can be kept dry for the bulbs, and 
the other, for the bulblets, with more moisture in the 
air. 
Storage in crates will be most convenient if one has 
a considerable quantity of any given variety. A con- 
