New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1895-08-14

to time, but only enough to protect the
tubers from the frost. This, in NV ex-
perlence, is the most unsatisfactory way
OF storing potatoes. The next worse
way is cellar under building. The
trouble with cellar is to give it air
enough aud keep it cool enough.
The most satisfactory and cheapest vav
that | know of is to store in dug.out
making the roof Of earth over poles and
brush. In very wet weather such roof
will leak unless covered with boards.
corn stalks, straw or other covering. The
best location is slope or bank facing
south. By leaving an alley through the
center of dug-out, with plenty of large
ventilation shafts through the roof, a
brisk circulation will be kept up when
ever the end door is opened particularly
where the door opens on the level, as it
will do if the building is dug in the side
of bank.
The dug-out should be built with a
bin on each side of a central alley. The
bottoms of the 3ins should be raised 6
inches from the ground and the sides of
the bins should be clear of contact with
the walls, whether stone or dirt. Both
bottoms and sides are best made of fence
boards, with inch spaces between. Such
building, carefully managed as to ven
tilation, opened up on frosty nights and
kept closed during the warm days of fall
and early winter, will take early OEio
potatoes through t. spring without Il
sprout, Early rose, beauty of hebron
and other such varieties 1oay require
turning over once.
1t has always been the custom to put
eggs down in salt or lime if they are to be
held for higher prices. There are about
as many different ways of keeping eggs
as there are people who wish to keep
them. We will give simple method
used by d few. In the first place, all
eggs that are intended to be preserved
should be laid by hens not mated with a
cock. Infertlle eggs will keep fora long
time. 1t is always more or less risky to
attempt to keep fertile eggs, for if there
is much change in tempera ture the germ
may start and then die, thus causing the
egg to saddle" or spoil. If, however,
there is no germ there to start, then the.
egg stands an excellent chance to keep.
True it is that the longer we keep eggs
the staler they will get-thsy never seem
to 60 the other way; but if they are kept
in cool, dry place they will not get
musty. Keep eggs so that the air can
get to and around them. The room
should be cool (from 40 to 60 degrees)
and we'll ventilated. Don't let it get
musty. Build racks that will hold, say
100 eggs each. Make the bottoms of
wire netting and run sticks across every
inches apart. The sticks should be
half an inch wide at bottom and come to
a point at top. They should be trian-
gular, in fact. Make the sides of tray
inch high. Now make rack the width
of the trays, with cleats on the inside,
say 4 inches apart, so that the trays can
be showed in the rack, one tray above.
another. In this way great many eggs
can be placed IN small space and al
ways be out of the way. Turn the eggs
half over two or three times week.
Draw out tray of eggs, invert an empty
tray over the full one, take firm hold on
each side and inver1, replacing the form
erly empty tray in tho rack. Thus it on
lily takes about minute to turn 100 eggs.