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Fitting Pipe 
On a farm one must often match up 
pieces of pipe around the place, and few 
have any means of measuring at hand. 
An the writer had a mixed pile of about 
500 ft. to sort and separate into lots, he 
I’ige Gauge —//«// Size 
whittled out the gauge from thin soft 
wood and it answered for all needs. It 
is the inside and not the outside gauge 
■ ■tie requires. E. s. 
Wisconsin. 
Ventilating a Storage Cellar 
I have an underground storage cellar 
80 ft. long. 20 ft. wide and 10 ft. high, 
built as a half-circle, covered with earth. 
There seems to be a little too much damp¬ 
ness in the cellar, due. probably, to lack 
of sufficient air circulation. The cellar 
has only one entrance, a door at one end. 
An S-in. terra cotta drain runs under it. 
and this is open at intervals as an aid 
to air circulation. In the top there are 
8-in. terra-cotta pipes as ventilators, 
spaced 8 ft. apart. I am thinking of 
placing a ,‘3-ft. pipe in the back of the 
cellar at the Hoor level, running through 
the embankment and extending up in the 
air about 14 ft. What height would you 
suggest? Would more and larger pines at 
the ceiling help? Would a pipe like the 
one suggested for the back of the cellar 
help if placed midway at each side of the 
cellar? Should the diameter at the top 
of these proposed ventilators be the same 
as where they enter the cellar? Throw¬ 
ing aside my suggestions, how would you 
try to dry this cellar? The drainage is 
all right. E. d. 
Robbiusville. N. J. 
A relatively high humidity is desirable 
in an apple storage room, as it tends to 
prevent withering when coupled with a 
low temperature. Considering the arched 
top of your cellar, which would tend to 
aid ventilation, it would seem that your 
outtake flues are nearly large enough, and 
if they and the-intake openings are free 
from cobwebs or other obstructions, should 
furnish sufficient ventilation for the 
cooler months, if. as you say. drainage is 
sufficient. By providing an opening in 
the door for tin* entrance of fresh air, 
ventilation and cooling in the Fall could 
be hastened, while lighted lanterns hung 
beneath the openings in the roof leading 
to the outtakes would still further hasten 
the circulation of air. 
If from your observation you are sure 
that the storage cellar as if now stands 
cannot be ventilated properly and that the 
fault i« in the lack of capacity in the ! 
existing ventilating system, the outtake 
flue that you suggest should ventilate the 
cellar quickly, providing enough openings 
were provided for the entrance of air to 
supply it. It is probable that a jnuch 
smaller flue, say one 2 ft. in diameter, 
would be sufficient, for it must be re¬ 
membered that the only heat that we have 
to maintain temperature is that from the 
floor and stated contents of tin 1 cellar, 
and that this must be conserved. Such 
a flue, if built, must he nrovided with 
some means of closing and regulating the 
air current upward. The higher this flue 
is the greater the draught, but a distance 
of a few feet above the ground should 
give sufficient upward current. In many 
root-storage cellars these flue openings 
are stuffed with sacks or straw during 
cold weather, to lessen the ventilating 
and eooliug effect. 
Cornell Bulletin No. 22. “Construction 
and Management of Boot Storage Cel¬ 
lars,” which can be had for the asking, 
will give you some valuable ideas in re¬ 
gard to this matter. r. h. s. 
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