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The Last Crop Work Out of Doors 
(Continued from page 20) 
bush beans, and all of the pole beans 
if properly dried when mature are 
good for cooking or for seed next 
year; but they should be harvested 
soon after the first light frost and 
put under cover in an airy place to 
dry thoroughly, as a few days of 
wet weather is likely to sprout them 
if they are left on the plant. 
Cucumbers should be gathered 
safely in advance of the first frost 
and the best of the medium-sized 
fruits selected and kept in as cold a 
place as possible; the larger ones 
may be ripened in a frame in the 
same way as melons, and used for 
slicing and cooking in batter in the 
same way as egg plant, making a 
very palatable dish. 
Sweet corn, cut and shocked in the 
same way as field corn, will keep in 
a much better condition than if it is 
allowed to freeze; it should not be 
cut, of course, until an immediate 
frost threatens. If gallon jars are 
used, sweet corn may be preserved 
on the cob with very little trouble by 
the cold pack method, and it makes 
a novel and delicious dish for mid¬ 
winter; selected ears of Golden Ban¬ 
tam and other small varieties will 
pack fairly well in wide mouthed 
quart or two-quart jars; the more 
matured ears may be used for can¬ 
ning in the ordinary way. 
The storage place itself should be 
clean and dry and, for most things, 
dark; the temperature required — for 
most things about 35° — should be 
maintained as evenly as possible by 
thorough ventilation and, where nec¬ 
essary, by artificial heat. During the 
fall, after first storing, the windows 
should be left open at night and 
closed during the day, and, later on, 
in cold weather, the reverse. 
The vegetables for storing should 
be perfectly sound, clean and dry be¬ 
fore being put away. They should 
always be handled with great care; 
the slightest bruise is the source of 
future trouble. Rats and mice should 
be carefully guarded against ; cement 
or plaster with broken glass in it will 
effectually stop any hole and chem¬ 
ical poisons, carefully used, will clean 
them out. 
A good frost-proof cellar with ade¬ 
quate ventilation is the best place for 
storing vegetables. If there is a fur¬ 
nace, the vegetable room should be 
partitioned off with double walls, 
leaving an air space between. A 
room that can be kept cold in a base¬ 
ment or on the north side of the 
house will answer in case no cellar 
is available. For many things, an 
idle hotbed may be used, or a vege¬ 
table pit may be constructed with 
comparatively little expense. For 
this purpose, it is much cheaper in 
the end to use concrete, as wood will 
rot out in a few years, and is, of 
course, much more likely to harbor 
disease spores. 
Some time in advance of the actual 
harvesting, the gardener should pro¬ 
vide himself with an adequate sup¬ 
ply of barrels, crates and boxes. The 
slatted crates in which Texas and 
Bermuda onions are shipped may be 
bought in most grocery stores for 
ten cents apiece, and provide one of 
the best packages for storing vege¬ 
tables and fruits, as they admit air 
freely and may be stacked on top of 
each other without putting any 
weight on the contents, and are good 
for melons, squash, beans, cabbage, 
cauliflower, onions, apples and pears. 
For vegetables, which should be 
packed in soil, like the root crops, 
ordinary cracker boxes which may be 
had in two sizes holding a bushel and 
a half bushel each, are very conven¬ 
ient. For bulky things, such as cab¬ 
bage and squash, slatted vegetable 
barrels may be used instead of the 
onion crates. The common sugar or 
flour barrel, for the purposes of the 
home gardener, is about the most in¬ 
convenient container that can be 
found- — and the one most generally 
used. 
All of these root crops are quite 
hardy and can be left out until there 
is danger of their being frozen below 
ground. Parsnips and oyster plants, 
in fact, can remain out over winter 
and part of the crop should always 
be so left for use in early spring. 
Beets, turnips and carrots and as 
many of the parsnips and oyster 
plants as are wanted for winter stor¬ 
age should be dug and sorted and 
the tops cut off, but not close enough 
to make them “bleed.” While it is 
not necessary, it is a good plan to 
wash them off before storing. Clean 
sand or sphagnum moss should be 
placed in the boxes or bins in which 
the vegetables are packed; the object 
being to keep the vegetables supplied 
with moisture so that they will not 
shrivel, and still have them available. 
The large winter radishes may be 
stored in the same way. 
The purpose of storing winter cel¬ 
ery is not only to keep it but also to 
blanch it. For a small quantity, the 
cracker boxes, already mentioned, 
may be used. Put two or three 
inches of sand on the bottom of each 
and pack the celery in. 
