RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
1237 
Fruit and Vegetable Storage 
The place shown in the cut is an 8x12 ex¬ 
tension from the kitchen. I excavated this 
when I put in the furnace. Part marked 
“a” is about six feet deep with cement 
walls up "a-a" about thi-ee feet. The 
rest of it six inches, I simply leveled off 
at a height of the wall “a, a,” and lightly 
cemented. This makes a big, wide shelf 
of about the proportion given in dia¬ 
gram. This gives me room enough for 
storage. Others may want the whole of 
one depth. I have full control of the 
temperature. I have a small thermo¬ 
meter there and generally have the win¬ 
dow, which is on hinges at the top. 
raised or partly raised by a cord ruu- 
sawed off makes a good spring and 
will last for years. 
Here is a point to remember; if a 
water line gets corroded or stopped up 
with rust, burn it so as to be good and 
hot, and then put one end of pipe up 
in a tree or up in a crotched stick, set 
in the ground, then pound pipe with 
hammer and the rust will all run out as 
clean as new pipe; one-inch pipe is bet¬ 
ter than smaller. j. a. w. 
Allentown. N. Y. 
Fill boxes or barrels in cellar with 
carrots or any root, then pour in sand. 
They will keep hard until the middle of 
the following Summer. For squash or 
pumpkins put in attic on racks or floor 
not colder than 40°. Squashes will keep 
indefinitely, pumpkin until April or May. 
They must not touch each other, as it 
causes sweat, oven a drop of water will 
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ning to the deepened space. If the night 
is cold I drop the window. If extremely 
cold I open the door towards the furnace 
a very little or more if necessary. It is 
a fine place. My brother could not use 
space this way, so partitioned off’ a small 
room on north side near a window, and 
controlled the same way. w, c. C. 
Jamesburg, N J. 
On page 1112 The R. N.-Y. desires in¬ 
formation with regard to keeping vege¬ 
tables and fruit in Winter storage, es¬ 
pecially where tlie house is w'armed by 
a heater in the cellar. The writer would 
suggest that a room be j)artitioned off in 
the cellar, preferably as far from the 
heater as possible, the partition to be 
made of matched boards nailed on both 
edges of 2x4 studding, thus forming a 
four-inch dead air space. Now arrange to 
lot the cold air into this room from the 
outside of the house by making a hole 
through the cellar wall, and also through 
the board partition, and conduct the cold 
air into this room from the outside 
through a pipe snugly fitted at each 
opening. The pipe may be of common 
seven-inch stovepipe, and should enter 
the room near the upper part. 
In order to prevent the room from 
getting too cold in extreme weather a 
bran sack or something similar may be 
stuffed in the pipe during the cold wave. 
If more convenient, a pane of glass might 
be removed from the cellar vdndow and 
the pipe fitted in that opening. I have 
frozen a chicken by placing it on the 
floor of a regular refrigerator room in a 
cellar w’here there was furnace heat and 
tl'.e refrigerator cooled by air from the 
outside through a pipe eight feet in 
lonfjtll. GEO- E- STONE. 
Vermont. 
I see that infoi-mation is wanted as 
to the best place to keep apples, potatoes 
and vegeta\)les. I have a cellar I built 
out away from the house in the Fall 
of 187G. It is built where the ground 
is somewhat sloping, so as to have a 
drain-pipe to outside, hliue is 10x20 
inside the wall, and I have a good cold 
si)ring of water in front of a five-foot 
bin across the upper side. My cellar 
keeps apples, potatoes and other vege¬ 
tables all Winter just as nice as they 
are in the Fall when gathered. It will 
pay any man well to build such a cellar 
if he has many apples and potatoes; 
they do not wither up as they do where 
there is a fire in or over a cellar. I have 
an alley-way at lower side with two 
doors, put three-ply tar paper on inside 
of doors, also on roof before putting on 
shingles. That keeps the cold out and 
the heat in. and if one has no spring 
where he can run water in the cellar, 
it will pay him well to buy a small 
ram to force the water up to the cellar. 
A 42-gallon cask with one-third of top 
start rot. They must be gathered care¬ 
fully with stem on and not bruised. I 
have a shell of squash now ten years old ; 
a rat dug a hole in it and built nest. 
Dry air is essential, pumpkins being more 
watery do not last as long. Some start 
to rot at stem. This is caused mainly 
by wrenching the stem when handled. 
The above is advised by actual expe- 
ience in \"iew of fancy market prices. 
Bowdoin, Me. c. G. p. 
Deepening a Well 
On page 1151 J, M. Drew tells of .a 
well that was deepened by hanging the 
wall by chains and rods to beams placed 
across" the top of the welL A word of 
caution will prove timely right here, for 
this wall that he cites was not of the 
ordinary sort. If this work is attempted 
where the well is stored up ordinarily, 
there will be a pretty good likelihood of 
a funeral. Safety first, if it does cost a 
little more, would appear to be the 
wisest course, especially at present, 
when we need all the men that we 
can get on the farms. H. E. COX. 
Hand Stump-puller 
On page 1150 you ask for experience 
with hand stump pullers. I have had 
some experience with a second-hand one 
pulling peach stumps up to six inches 
in diameter. Two men can do a pretty 
good job, although it is hard work. 
This machine consisted of a tripod sup¬ 
porting a ratchet wheel over -which a 
chain worked, and was operated by a 
lever. My experience is that a traction 
engine will do the job much quicker and 
cheaper, so the stump-puller -went on the 
scrap pile long ago. 
8ome years since you published an 
article by a Mr. King (F. H. possibly), 
describing a sewage system for bath 
room, etc. I followed the plan and for 
three years it has given perfect sati-sfac- 
tion. C. P. B. 
Pennsylvania. 
The Bookshelf 
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book for the garden amateur, giving an 
outline of the work for every month in 
the year, dealing with vegetables, fruits 
and flowers, house plants, the small green¬ 
house, etc. It takes up many problems 
that perplex the inexperienced gardener, 
and makes plain the needed points in gar¬ 
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cisely covering a wide range of informa¬ 
tion. Attractively bound and freely illus¬ 
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Watts.—A new and comprehensive work 
covering the whole field of vegetable 
foi'cing as now practiced in this country. 
Greenhouses and their heating, soil, ma¬ 
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and fungus injury, and a variety of minor 
but important details are discussed. Pub¬ 
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