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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3606, 5 December 1905, Page 4

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fckoffht# Ve*«<mbl*» and Frodniio Carbonic Om> a IHeily Dineape breeder.

Says J. J. H. Gregory, the well-known seedsman and vegetable grower: "A cellar may be more valuable than. 1 the building which stands on it when the , farmer has learned just how to control Its temperature and dryness for the best keeping of Ills vegetables.’' Cellars have generally been found! to be unhealthy. Vegetables are frequently Jeff over to rot. While rotting, carbonic acid gas is 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 eufficiently pure and breathed alone it would soon cause death. In a section much affected with a malignant fever it was found that in every case where the fever prevailed there was a cellar, ■while the houses where there were no cellars were generally exempt.

Where cellars are thusi used a covered drain of proper size leading outward from the bottom of the cellar should be constructed. The construction should be such that the drain can bo opened and closed at pleasure. By opening occasi onaliy the foul air can be drained off. It is, however, believed 1 that the ' '"t plan will be to abandon the cellar altogether. A house of proper size can be constructed' with a double floor and double wall? from 8 to 12 feet ■ap.it-tV : 'Mll between the walls with sawdust or fine earth* Double doors should be constructed 1 , one in either end, say, 5x2% feat. The inner door may be constructed' to slide. Houses constructed' as above gave entire satisfaction and' ware free from the deleterious effects of carbonic acid gas.—Bryan Tyson, in Farm and Home.