. The modern guide for fruit and truck shippers and poultry raisers in the southern states; . cleaned from all dirt, and carefully assorted as to size. Special machinesare on the market for this purpose, and we advise the use of the same byall shippers, as no potatoes less than two inches in diameter should everbe packed in any potato car. In the very early part of the season, small potatoes, even before theyare ripe or grown, may be shipped l^y express in small lots, as tliey forma delightful dish, with green English peas, and are in good demand in allmarkets, but for regular shipments notlii
. The modern guide for fruit and truck shippers and poultry raisers in the southern states; . cleaned from all dirt, and carefully assorted as to size. Special machinesare on the market for this purpose, and we advise the use of the same byall shippers, as no potatoes less than two inches in diameter should everbe packed in any potato car. In the very early part of the season, small potatoes, even before theyare ripe or grown, may be shipped l^y express in small lots, as tliey forma delightful dish, with green English peas, and are in good demand in allmarkets, but for regular shipments notliing less than two inches should beused. On this page we produce two potatoes (see above), one two inches indiameter, the other one and one-half inches in diameter. It is a positivelass to the shipper to ship any potatoes in a car that are less than twoinches in diameter. The little potatoes add only to the freight bill anddetract from the price of the marketable potatoes, and in thi- way act detri-mentally in two ways. A difference of 15 or 20 cents per l)usliel in a car cutsinto the net p
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