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HOUSE & GARDEN 
with a long, sloping roof 
overhanging the open 
side. It faces south, and 
this overhanging roof is 
sufficient to keep out 
rain or snow, and pre¬ 
vent hot sun from peel¬ 
ing off paint from 
tools. 
As the farm hands 
come in from the fields 
.it is easy, easiest, in fact, 
to back machines into 
the shed and leave small 
tools there also before 
going on to the barn. 
The shed is 16' wide, 
with a roof projecting 
over the front 4'. It is 
50' long. In one end a 
tight room 12' wide was 
built for an ice house. 
It is roofed with three- 
ply asbestos roofing. 
The whole shed is bat- 
toned and painted like 
the barn. It cost as fol¬ 
lows : 
The potato cellar was situated near the farm road on 
the hillside beside the orchard. It cost, complete, 
$783, and holds 1800 bushels * 
A general view from the main or¬ 
chard, showing potato cellar in 
foreground, farm shed and farm¬ 
houses in middle distance 
Lumber . $83.71 
Nails and incidentals... 4.50 
Asbestos roofing. 56.76 
Hauling material from 
town . 20.73 
Labor, 163j /2 hours. 47.04 
Total cost . $212.74 
This made the part of the shed 
for the tools and machinery cost 
$159.56, while the ice house cost 
about $53.18. Add to this saw¬ 
dust, worth $2.50, and hauling 
this from town, $4.20, and you 
have $59.88, the cost of the ice 
house equipped. 
The Cost of Building a Cellar 
The storing of farm crops is 
becoming each year more of a 
science. Many farms are estab¬ 
lishing refrigeration plants of 
their own, because, in some cases, 
pre-cooling is deemed necessary 
before the product is shipped. In 
some localities cold storage fruit 
brings the large price, in other 
localities apples offered on the 
market as cellar-stored 
command the largest price. 
Many people claim that un¬ 
derground storage retains 
the flavor of the fruit bet¬ 
ter. We expect this ques¬ 
tion to be thoroughly 
thrashed out before our 
orchards bear in such 
quantity that the subject 
will become a vital one for 
us. Meanwhile, every farm 
must have storage for fruit 
and vegetables. The bet- 
i ter this storage, the better 
the farmer’s chances for 
'good markets. The better 
his seed potatoes will be 
next spring, and the more 
money he will save. 
With the prospects of a 
potato crop to store, we be¬ 
gan building a cellar. It is 
situated not far from the 
farm road, about in the 
center of the fields. The 
spot is on a hillside, where 
good drainage is assured. 
Many years ago an old 
house stood there, so the 
e x c a v a ti on was partly 
made. After the walls 
were finished the room in¬ 
side measured 28' by 40'. 
The walls are 12' high. 
A view from the farmhouse, showing the convenient central position of the storage cellar and the contour 
of the land - the best apple land in the country 
