This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...boards laid on. It is desirable to keep the pile for several days, or even for weeks, without additional cover. This allows the vegetables to cool down and to evaporate a certain amount of water. As the weather grows colder some soil is shoveled onto the straw covering. This earth cover is put on, a little at a time, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...boards laid on. It is desirable to keep the pile for several days, or even for weeks, without additional cover. This allows the vegetables to cool down and to evaporate a certain amount of water. As the weather grows colder some soil is shoveled onto the straw covering. This earth cover is put on, a little at a time, from day to day, thickening as the cold increases, until, by the time the ground freezes for winter, the pit is adequately protected against the severest freezes which are to be expected. The essentials of this method of pit storage are: (1) good fruit or vegetables, mature and free from decay; (2) careful handling; (3) perfect drainage; (4) proper ventilation; (5) progressively supplied and adequate protection from cold, but not such a covering as will prevent the proper cooling off of the contents of the pit. The advantages of the method are convenience and economy. In the opinion of the author the use of storage pits should be much more common than it is. There seems to be a notion that it belongs only with frontier conditions, and it has generally been practiced only in new countries. My friend and former student, Mr. O. M. Morris, has recently made public his observations of this form of storage in the comparatively new country cf Oklahoma. His descriptions and notes are of so much general interest, that I will copy them here: "Storing potatoes, sweet potatoes, turnips, and beets in pits over winter is practiced in Oklahoma and the surrounding states to a considerable extent and with widely varying degrees of success. Some men keep their root crops over winter in pits, with a loss of not more than one per cent, while others lose their entire crop. There are many conditions that will contribute to the loss, and sometimes it is quite di...
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