The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-10-22

, ventilated and the temperature reg
ulated.
Inside the storage room there may
be shelves made of Stats, spaced an
inch apart to allow free circulation of
air. The bottom shelf should be a
few inches above the floor. for the
same purposes. The shelves may be
about twelve inches apart and may
have sides to keep the contents from
falling out. The layers Of fruit or
vegetables on these shelves should be
not more than six inches deep. It
| would be ideal If no two tubers or
apples could touch, but this is hardly
practicable or necessary.
A cement floor may make storage
room too dry, and the best thing to
overcome this is to have underneath
the shelves large tray Of sand, which
may be moistened from time to time
to keep the atmosphere in the proper
condition
Celery In an Abandoned Hotbed.
OF course. If one wants to go to the
expense of building an outside storage
cellar or cave very fine place in
deed may be made, with ventilators
and insulated walls fixed to the best
advantage. The important thing is to
, see that temperature, moisture and
ventilation are suited to the crop be-
ing stored
The other root crops-beets, turnips,
carrots and parsnips-and apples may
be stored in the same manner as Irish
potatoes. in outdoor pits or In the par
titioned storage room in the house
cellar
Celery should be stored with the
roots in slightly moist earth. Some
gardeners merely ridge it up as it
stands in the beds, drawing earth
about the plants until only the top
stick out. Over the tops is placed a
, quantity of straw or hay, then some
oiled paper or thin boards to shed the
rain. and finally heavy coat of straw.
An abandoned hotbed makes good
place in which to store celery. The
plants are taken up and set in the
emptied pit nearly as close together
as possible, the roots being buried in
I soft earth
Boards are placed over the hotbed
! frame to shed the rain and keep out
the light, so that the plants will make
slight growth ands will be properly
blanched. When very cold weather
comes thick carpet of straw or hay
/ is thrown over the beds to keep the
celery from freezing
| II stored in the house cellar steps
must be taken to see that celery roots
are In moist soil or sand at all times
and that the plants are protected from
the light so that the blanching may be
good The roots should be damp and
the tops dry.
| Sometimes an outdoor pit Is dug In
well-drained place. after the manner
of potato pit. the sides and ends
being lined with boards. After the
plants are transplanted into cover
/ ing OF boards and straw and earth is
given. A ditch for drainage should be
dug around It,
| Cabbages are sometimes stored In
heaps like potatoes. Or they may be
stored in hotbeds like celery. The
usual way to store them outside is to
J bury them in pits similar to the pota-
to pits; except that only one layer Of
cabbages is put in and the heads are
placed upside down with the roots on
| They are covered lightly with straw
and a thin layer of dirt at first. until
the natural heating Is over Then
/! they are covered gradually as cold
weather comes on.
/ This gradual covering is important
/ with all vegetables stored in pits II
covered deeply at once they are likely
J to heat and rot While it is possible
ito store cabbages in the partitioned
storage room in the cellar, with the
root crops, it is better not to do So
| Cabbages are likely to rot, and II is
| decidedly insanitary to have rotten