. The potato . Potatoes. Harvesting the Potato 233 piled up in tiers and about 60 boxes put on a load. Boxes of this description can be purchased for about 18 cents each. Slat crates of cheaper construction can be had for about 12 to 18 cents each. These boxes are quite dur- able and with proper care should last 10 or 12 years. There are now on the market machines which dig and bag potatoes in one operation. Machines of this sort undoubtedly save a great amount of labor, and in some. Fig. 17. One tj^e of potato sorter. cases will prove to be good investments. We should remember, however, that
. The potato . Potatoes. Harvesting the Potato 233 piled up in tiers and about 60 boxes put on a load. Boxes of this description can be purchased for about 18 cents each. Slat crates of cheaper construction can be had for about 12 to 18 cents each. These boxes are quite dur- able and with proper care should last 10 or 12 years. There are now on the market machines which dig and bag potatoes in one operation. Machines of this sort undoubtedly save a great amount of labor, and in some. Fig. 17. One tj^e of potato sorter. cases will prove to be good investments. We should remember, however, that potatoes harvested * in this manner have no chance to dry off and are therefore more likely to rot in storage than those which have stood for a few hours on the surface of the ground. Where the weather will permit, it is usually advisable to sort potatoes in the field. Various types of sorting machines are used for this purpose (see Fig. 17 and Plate XV). One is simply a wooden frame on runners, having two inclined sieves of heavy wire. The largest potatoes roll down the top sieve into a sack at the end. The smaller potatoes fall through the upper sieve on to a finer. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Gilbert, Arthur Witter, 1882-1936; Barrus, Mortier Franklin, 1879-1962; Dean, Daniel. New York : Macmillan
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