Storage For Roots

m inaJnng provisión for keeping roots tkrongb winter, whether iu pits or in out door heaps, or ín basements or celonthonses. or in lmildingsspecialIv buili for the purpoee, there are eert-iin reqiiisltes wMcb are indispensable. The air should bc kept pure to prevent decay, as well as other disadvantages, and therefore n continued ventilation must be kept up; bnt tliis ventilation must be very light or it vill let in freezing air and the roots will be frozen. These requisitos can te well understood only by some esperience. The thickness oí the walls and the amonnt of protection f rom bost must be well observed. Pits or heaps out doors are often made too warm, and the roots are started to grow or rotting is induced. Heaps that are corered with straw and then wlth a coat of earth are kept best with plenty of straw to absorb auy foul air and protect the roots, wbile the quantity of earth in cover may be limited. A farmer who raised large quantities of roots was always very sticcessful with bis large heaps of potatoes by using a compact foot of straw to cover them and only three inches of earth to hold it down. Ventilating holes at the top were in part rendered needless on account cl' the groat masa of straw with its absorbing power. We haveknown farmers whose heaps of potatoes rotted badly ut the apex to charge the disaster entirely to freezing instead of to tho want of vt'Utilatioii, the foul air riaing to the top. They iticreased the thickness of the foot of earth in covering, and only increased tbc evil instead of reducing it. Roots stored in oellars require the game or greater care to give sufficient ventilation. and this care is especially reqttired for tnrnipa, which heat readily if in smal] masses. These principies also apply to the winter storage of apples, bilí osaally less so than to roots, as tlioy are particularly roquired to have a low nniform temperatnre. When roots are stored in heaps or in long piles, ven1ila!i(n niay be cffected by placing a tnbular tile upright at the top and at distances of several f eet f rom each other, and preventing the too free entrance of cold air by a loóse whisp of straw.