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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3555, 3 August 1905, Page 4

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Hotline V« Betablee and Fruit* P*#* dune Carbonic Ga«, a Beadly gjtj Disease Breeder. flays J. J. H. Gregory, t he well-known seedsman and, vegetable grower: A cellar rna y he more valuable than the building v, tiich stands on it when the partner has learned Just how to control its temperatnre and dryness for the best keepirg of ids vegetables.’ Cellars hare generally been found 1 to be unhealthy. Vegetables are frequently left over to rot. While rot,(ing, carbonic acid ga« i» formed. This gas is heavier than common air, and settles 'to the bottom of the cellar. It is very ■unhealthy, and people when entering the cellar are liable to breathe it. If sufficiently pure and breathed alone it would soon cause death.. In a sect ion "much affected with a malignant fever -it " vs found that in every cave where the 1 prevailed there we r "ar. w v " houses -wher too eei.ars ■ goner.n Where c'.-liars are thru used a covered drain of proper size ly 1 ' ng outward froth the bottom of the cellar should be constructed. The construction should be such that the drain can be opened and closed at pleasure. Hy opening occasionally the foul air can he dram fd off. It is, however, believed that the ; tier plan will be to ■ ’ -• ,v >n the cellar altogether. A house of proper'size can be constructed with a double floor and double walla from 8 to 12 feet apart. Fill between the walls with sawdust or fine earth. Double doors should he constructed 1 , one in eitherT-nd, say, r>x2Va fenf. the inner door may be constructed' to slide. Houses constructed as above gave enBire ..satisfaction and' wore free from the deleterious effects-of carbonic acid * JftZ. —-Bryan Tyson, In Farm and-Home.