The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1917-08-03

garden should be planted to those
vegetables which must be used as
o o as they reach maturity. The re-
mainder should be devoted to crops
that are to be canned, dried, or stored.
1t is comparatively easy to keep by
storing such vegetables as potatoes
beets, carrots, parsnips, satisfy, tur-
nips. cabbage, celery, onions, sweet
potatoes, dry beans, and dry Lima
beans. Some of the crops may be
stored in the cellar under the dwelling
in pits or banks, or in caves or out
door cellars. Others can be kept in
any dry place, such as the pantry or
attic.
The Storage Room in the Basement.
Many houses are heated by a fur
mace in the cellar. The pipes are, as
a rule, carried under the joists, thus
warming the cellar to some extent.
For this reason it is best to partition
off a small room in one corner of the
cellar to serve as a storage room for
potatoes, beets, carrots, parsnips, sal
sify, and turnips. If possible, this
room should have at least one window
for the purpose of regulating the tenn
perature. The floor should not be con-
GREETED, as the natural earth makes
better conditions for the keeping of
vegetables. Bins may be constructed
for the various products, or they may
be stored in boxes, baskets or barrels.
This room will also serve as a storage
place for fresh fruits and canned
goods. The vegetables to be stored
should be harvested when the ground
is dry, allowed to lie on the surface
long enough for the moisture to dry
off before placing them in storage,
The tops should be removed from
beets, turnips, carrots, and satisfy be-
fore placing them in storage.
Outdoor Pits or Banks.
Outdoor pits or banks are very gen.
orally used for keeping potatoes,
beets, carrots, turnips, parsnips, cab
bage, and satisfy. Select a we'll
drained location and make a shallow
excavation, some 6 or 5 inches deep.
and of suitable size. This is lined
with straw, leaves, or similar material
and the vegetables placed in a conf
cal pile on the material. The vege-
tables are then covered with straw
or similar material. and finally with
earth to a depth Of several inches
The depth of the earth covering is de-
termined by the severity Of the win.
tiers in that particular locality. l,
is we'll to cover the pits with straw
corn, fodder, or manure during severe
weather. Such pits keep the above
vegetables very we'll but have the Oh.
lection that it is hard to get the ma.
terial out in cold weather, and where
the pit is once opened il is desiraols
to remove the entire contents. 70,
this reason several small pits rattle,
than one large one should be co-.
structed, SO that the entire content:
may be removed at one time. ~Ins-eaC
Of storing each crop in a pit By itself
it is better to place several vegetable:
of similar keeping quality and re
quirements in the same pit, so that i
will only be necessary to open on.
pit to get a supply of all of them. II
storing several crops in the same pit
it is a good plan to separate then
with straw, leaves, or other material
The vegetables from the small pit ma,
be placed in the basement storag
room where they can be easily secure'
as needed for the table.
Cabbage.
Cabbage may be stored in a specia
kind of bank or pit. The excavatio
is made long and narrow and abou
the same depth as for the other vege
tables. The cabbages are pulled an
placed in rows in the pit with tn
heads down and roots up. The whol
is covered with dirt-no straw or lii
ter need be used. These pits are mad
as long as desired, as it is possible I
remove portions of the stored produ'
without disturbing the ,remainde
Cabbage need not be covered as dee
ly as potatoes, as slight freezing do
not injure the cabbage. The heads
cabbage are sometimes stored in BAN
or pits in a n similar to D
%tatoes, turnips, etc. This method
open to the same objection as VIII,
it is used for potatoes-it is hard
get at the material when it is needle
Another method of storing cabba,
consists in setting the whole plant
trenches side by side with the roc
down and as close together as tn
can be placed. Dirt is thrown ov
the roots and against the stalks
the depth of several inches. A Ii
fence is built around the stora
place, and rails, scantling, or otl
supports laid across the top. Abou
- feet of straw or other material is tt
Z piled on top of the storage pit.
Celery.
Celery may be stored in a modif
type of outside pit or in the r
where it is grown. When stored il