The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-11-09
By STANLEY

cool and the mounds should be
made: on r cool day so that no ex'
cess heat BECOMES trapped inside.
Usually carrots and beets keep bet
ter than turnips, but many people
are successful in keeping turnips
until spring. Apples and Irish pota-
toes may be put into separate
mounds although either may be
mounded with carrots. Some people
prefer to make several mixed
mounds with a total of one or two
bushels OF mixed vegetables in each
mound, so that all'of the vegetables
desired can be gotten without open
ing more than one mound at time.
Farmers who store vegetables to
sell or to feed to livestock make
larger mounds.
After the mounds have been built,
they are covered with a layer OF
clean straw and then a layer of soil.
As the weather becomes colder. an.
other layer Of straw or strawy man
ure is placed over the layer OF soil.
Some people prefer to put a second
layer Of soil over the second layer
Of straw, but many people simply
put on enough straw or strawy
manure to prevent the freezing OF
the vegetables. 1t is good plan 70
leave hole in the top OF the mound
for ventilation. This hole Is kept
stuffed lightly with straw so that
the air may circulate and oxygen
can penetrate to the bottom Of the
mound. When the weather ap-
proaches zero, more straw is put on
and the strawy chimney is stuffed
more tightly to prevent freezing.
In mild weather, the straw Is loos.
ened again in the chimney because
the vegetables need more oxygen in
mild weather than In cold weather
Some people use 8 4-inch drain tile
for a chimney.
During mild weather, q mound
may be opened slightly and as
many vegetables removed as de-
sired, and the mound then may be
closed as before. Sometimes 1t Is
desired to open a mound during
very cold weather. in which case
all OF the vegetables should be re-
moved because 1t is very difficult
TO properly close a mound that has
been opened in severely cold wealth
er. The vegetables may then be
taken into the house where they
may be kept in a cool basement for
a few weeks II suitably moistened
and ventilated.
Since Irish potatoes and waxy-
skinned varieties OF apples re-
quire only SIS per cent relative hui
mildly, they may be stored salts
factorily in any cool basement that
has a dirt floor. Easements with a
dry cement floor have to be sprin-
killed. in order to keep the relative
humidity up 10 SIS per cent. Such
apples as Russets and Golden Delic.
iOus do not have enough wax on
their skins 10 prevent willing, and
therefore they require a relative
humidity of 90 to IS per cent. That
is Why these varieties keep best in
outdoor mounds. 1t is important
not TO pile apples or potatoes too
deeply because all vegetables and
fruits need an abundance OF oxy-
gen. In cellars 1t is best TO keep
them In crates so that the air may
circulate. The temperature should
be nearly freezing for apples and
little higher for potatoes, because
potatoes become sweet when the
temperature stays low for a long
sweet, they may be made less swee,
by keeping them whore the temper
ature is about 20 TO rs degrees for
week before using them. Potatoes
should be kept IN a dark place.
Celery, Chinese cabbage, and sim.
liar leafy vegetables may be kept
until Christmas or a little later in
outdoor cold frames, where they
can be kept covered until freezing
weather and well ventilated during
mild weather Parsley Sfay be left
where II grew in the garden and
Will stay In good condition for the
table under a generous loose pile OF
clean straw.
Parsnlps and satisfy may be left
in the ground and dug as needed.
or they may be dug Just before the
ground freezes and put In mounds
for winter use. They are not harmed
by freezing. but they will witber
rapidly unless the relative humidity
is high.
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