Cleveland County herald., 1920-11-11
STORE VEGETABLES FROM
 GARDEN FOR WINTER USE

Home gardens may be made a means of furnishing a winter as well as a summer supply of vegetables if in addition to canning, drying some of the vegetables are stored fresh, states c. Woolsey, horticulturist, Ag- ricultural Extension Division, Univer- sity of Arkansas.
 The home garden crops suitable for storage include beets, cabbage, carrots, turnips, potatoes, squashes, onions and sweet potatoes. All vege- tables do not keep well under the same temperature, moisture and air circula- tion. Beets, carrots, parsnips, turn ips and cabbage do best at low tem- perature in a fairly moist atmosphere and without much circulation of air.
 An attempt of this type may be found in the conical piles and trenches seen in many gardens. On ions demand very low temperature but one that is dry and must have plenty of circulation of air. Pota- toes require about the same temper ature as cabbage and beets but re- quires plenty of circulation of air. Squashes and sweet potatoes require high temperatures, around 55 de- grees Fahrenheit with plenty of cir culation of dry air.
 Three places may be available for storing the home supply of vegeta- bles namely, cellar under the house, outdoor pits and outdoor cellars, points out MT. Woolsey. If the house is heated with furnace the only veg etables that will keep well in the same room as the furnace are squash es and sweet potatoes. However, a partition may be erected which will allow for the storing of vegetables requiring cool temperatures. Beets, carrots, parsnips and turnips will keep better in cellar room if they are buried in boxes of sand or earth. Potatoes should be placed in slated bins where there is a free circulation of moisture.
 Onions should be placed in slated crates and suspended from the top of the cellar. Thus it is possible to have the crops that require moist at mosphere and those requiring dry at  mosphere in the same cellar. The moist soil in which the turnips, pars- nips, etc., are stored makes conditions ideal for these crops while the top, dry air is better suited to the onions.
 Where the winter is cooler months it is sometimes advisable to store in outside pits. Only those vegetables suitable to 8 moist atmosphere are successfully stored in this way. The pit should be located in a well drain ed place. A shallow excavation about one fott deep is made in the ground. This is lined with straw. The vege- tables to be stored are placed in a conical pile on the straw. The coni- cal pile is then covered with straw to the depth of four to six inches. About three. to four inches of soil is then thrown over the pile leaving a small part of the straw sticking out at the pot for ventilation. If the weather gets very cold new lay CT of soil should be added to the pile. Better results are obtained where the piles are made small.
 Cabbage is not generally stored in conical pits. The plants are pulled, with the roots on, and placed upside down in rows two to three heads wide in shallow trenches. Soil is then bank ed up on the heads. It is not neces- sary to bank the soil deeply. The outdoor pit method is better adapted to severe than mild climates. In the warmer section of the state where winter rains are likely to occur such pits are likely to become water soak ed and the vegetables to suffer de- cay.