. The potato; a practical treatise on the potato, its characteristics, planting, cultivation, harvesting, storing, marketing, insects, and diseases and their remedies . rter (Fig. 49), ofwhich there are several types on the market. Packages.—Potatoes are sold by the pound, peck,bushel, barrel, cental, and car lot. The early potatoesare shipped in barrels holding 3 bushels (180 pouhds).A canvas cover is nailed on the head. Such barrelscost about 20 cents, including the cover. The latecrop is sometimes shipped in bulk in car lots. In theEast seed potatoes are shipped in double-headed bar-rels co
. The potato; a practical treatise on the potato, its characteristics, planting, cultivation, harvesting, storing, marketing, insects, and diseases and their remedies . rter (Fig. 49), ofwhich there are several types on the market. Packages.—Potatoes are sold by the pound, peck,bushel, barrel, cental, and car lot. The early potatoesare shipped in barrels holding 3 bushels (180 pouhds).A canvas cover is nailed on the head. Such barrelscost about 20 cents, including the cover. The latecrop is sometimes shipped in bulk in car lots. In theEast seed potatoes are shipped in double-headed bar-rels containing 165 pounds, net. Such barrels cost,new, about 30 to 33 cents. Flour-barrels are oftenpurchased at about 15 cents each instead. The highprice of new barrels leads some to ship seed potatoesin strong burlap sacks w^hich hold the same amountas a barrel. The sacks cost 15 to 20 cents less thanthe barrel. Boxes are used for .shipping small quan-tities. On the Pacific Coast burlap sacks holdinga cental (100 pounds), and costing 5 cents each, areused. Barrels.—Before filling, drive the hoops firm on thebottom and nail with shingle nails; drive on the bulge. I64 THE POTATO hoops, and secure with 3 or 4 barrel nails; then pro-ceed to fill. The potatoes should be shaken down oc-casionally while filling, and the barrels filled full, and,if headed, the head should be put in where it belongswith a screw press, so that the potatoes cannot head should be nailed firmly with shingle in bags, sack them up well, and tie tight; or sewup, according to requirements. Bushel Boxes.—For marketing early potatoes inthe local market bushel boxes or crates are oftenused. T. B. Terry uses a bushel box 13x16 inchesand 13 inches deep, all inside measurement. Thesides and bottoms are of ^-inch, and the ends are^-inch, white wood. Hand-holes are cut in eachend, and the upper corners are bound with galvanizedhoop iron to strengthen them. They cost $ to$ per hundred at
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