year round, except in the coldest winter weather, and even then they
can be opened during the warmer hours of the middle of the day without
danger of freezing the contents of the cellar. The cellar can be
protected from invasion from without by galvanized iron netting, and
wire screens will exclude the flies. Both screens must, however, be so
adjusted that they will not interfere with the opening and closing of
the windows.



THE PARTITIONED CELLAR

The cellar which is partitioned off into small rooms is more easily
cared for and kept in order than that which consists of just the one
large space. Rough pine-board partitions cost very little, and one to
shut off the furnace (provided there be one) from the rest of the room
is absolutely necessary, since the heat which it generates must not be
allowed to spread and so spoil the cellar for cold-storage purposes,
for warm, damp air hastens the degeneration of vegetables and meats.
Unless some other provision is made in the cellar plan for the coal, a
strong bin, with one section movable, should be built for it in the
furnace room. To the posts of this bin hang the shovels--one large and
one small--used in handling the coal. The premature burial of many a
shovel might have been prevented had its owner only bethought him of
those simple expedients, hammer and nails. A strip of leather nailed
to another post supports ax or hatchet, while near by is the neat pile
of kindling which its sharp edge has made--perhaps out of old and
useless boxes and barrels. These must not be allowed to accumulate,
but be chopped up at once. Logs and large sticks have each their own
pile, while chips, sawdust, and shavings take up their abode in a large