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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Farm Mechanics 
Storage for Potatoes and Apples 
Last Winter we tried out a storage cel¬ 
lar for apples that proved very satisfac¬ 
tory. An old, abandoned boiler cellar was 
walled up 10 ft. square and 10 ft. deep, 
with a concrete roof and a concrete stair¬ 
way. Apples kept very fine until late in 
the Spring. 
The roof was made about 8 in. thick, 
supported with two piers 10 in. square, 
in spite of the very severe weather and 
the unfinished condition of the cellar. We 
originally planned to put a second door 
at the foot of the stairway as a frost pro¬ 
tection, but did not do it, and find it is 
hardly necessary, though it would be an 
added protection, especially for potatoes. 
There are two 5-in. terra-cotta pipes for 
ventilation, as shown in the picture. The 
one on top we had closed during severe 
Sectional View of Storage Cellar 
and is 2 ft. higher at the center than at 
the sides. Old 1-in. pipe was laid upon 
the forms after an inch of concrete was 
placed on them. The pipe was run length¬ 
wise and crosswise every 12 in. After 
the concrete was thoroughly seasoned, 2 
ft. of soil was thrown in in the shape of 
a mound on top. No water has entered, 
nor did the frost trouble us last Winter, 
weather. 
Another tvpe of construction that is 
proving very satisfactory for apple stor¬ 
age in this county can be erected at much 
less expense than the all-concrete cellar, 
though where rats are a menace their con¬ 
trol would be much more difficult. Old 
oil-soaked railroad ties could be used, or 
any easily secured timber. Only enough 
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BIX 18 
March 5, 1921 
soil would have to be removed to secure 
sufficient loose soil to bank up the sides 
and cover the top of the timbers about 
2 ft. in depth, which would probably be 
enough protection. There may be sec¬ 
tions of the country where the frost en¬ 
ters the ground to a greater depth, 
though here it very rarely does. Persons 
living in colder sections of the country 
should furnish greater depth of covering 
to thp top and sides. 
The location of storage cellars is an 
important consideration in relation to 
surface seepage. Our own cellar was 
completed very late in the Autumn of 
vere weather even the vents can be closed 
for a short period without damage. 
ELMER J. WEAVER. 
An Outdoor Closet 
May a woman make a suggestion in re¬ 
gard to outside toilet or closet, as in my 
opinion the women could easily present 
the disagreeable condition so truthfully 
described in a recent issue of your paper? 
With a place in which only women live 
we have an outside building with no vault. 
It stands near the house, on a down 
grade, so that a hinged door at the back 
can be raised. We never empty chamber 
slops there, but dispose of them by dilut- 
Side and Front L iew Showing Construe tion of Storage Cellar 
1919, and drainage was not properly ar¬ 
ranged for before the frost was in the 
ground a foot or more. The result was 
that some surface water entered during 
a very heavy rain, when the entire coun¬ 
try was a mass of ice. If sloping ground, 
or a hillside, is not available, and the 
level surface must be the location, water 
can be kept out by banking the earth sev¬ 
eral feet high on all sides of the cellar. 
The door and ventilator should be open 
during all times that there is no danger 
of contents freezing. During very se- 
ing with clean water and throwing on the 
grass about the house, with resulting 
benefit to the grass. We use sifted coal 
ashes or dry earth every day, and I have 
no trouble whatever in removing the con¬ 
tents, taking it out into an old pail, and 
scatter on the garden before it is plowed, 
or boe into the corn. It is simply black 
earth. I do this work myself mornings, 
before m,v neighbors are up to observe, 
and they never know of it. It is the 
liquids that are poured in that makes it 
so filthy. I rented m.v place one year 
and it was most disgusting., We are not 
troubled with dies. K. z. 
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