Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1907 — Roots For Farm Animals. [ARTICLE]

Roots For Farm Animals.

If roots are stored in a pit In the field a high, dry place should be chosen. If the ground Is clayey the roots should be placed on top of the ground. If It Is gravelly and drainage"ls good a shallow pit about five feet wide and of necessary length may be shoveled out The roots should be carefully placed In a gable shaped pile about five feet wide and as long as convenient A thin layer of straw should then be laid over the pile and this covered with six te eight Inches of earth. Another and thicker layer of straw and a final layer of earth will complete the work. Ventilators should be placed at intervals of ten or fifteen feet which should be closed when sweating has ceased. The pit should not be .opened on warm days in winter. A ditch for drainage should be cut around the pit Roots stored In this way do not keep as well as when stored in a good cellar; therefore they should be fed out as early as possible. —New York Cornell Experiment Station. \