. The Canadian farmer's manual of agriculture [microform] : the principles and practice of mixed husbandry as adapted to Canadian soils and climate : comprising: the field; produce of the farm; stock raising and management; manufactures of the farm; dairy; diseases of horses, cattle, sheep, pigs; farm buildings, modern machinery and implements : counsel to the immigrant-settler, Agriculture; Farms; Agriculture; Exploitations agricoles. 216 The Canadian Farmer's tions of the potato dipgers, hut wo know them to bo impractica- ble in any but well-clcHred fields. The accompanying is an en- g
. The Canadian farmer's manual of agriculture [microform] : the principles and practice of mixed husbandry as adapted to Canadian soils and climate : comprising: the field; produce of the farm; stock raising and management; manufactures of the farm; dairy; diseases of horses, cattle, sheep, pigs; farm buildings, modern machinery and implements : counsel to the immigrant-settler, Agriculture; Farms; Agriculture; Exploitations agricoles. 216 The Canadian Farmer's tions of the potato dipgers, hut wo know them to bo impractica- ble in any but well-clcHred fields. The accompanying is an en- graving of this implement. Vvi. I'otatu Di|;gor. ^A\\ potatoes should be dug as soon as thoroughly ripe, that is, as soon as the tops can be detached by })ulling from the bulbs. They should be left upon the surface of the ground, if the weather be open, until the earth upon them is perfectly dry. Upon lighter lands, two hours will often suffice for this purpose. They should then be piled or pitted in small heaps containing from twenty to forty bushels, and left to sweat until there be danger of injury by frost. This sweating process has to be under- gone somewhere, and it is far better that it should take place in small heaps outside, than when stored in large quantities in a cellar. If potatoes are to be left out through our long Canadian winter in pits, such pits should be dug in a dry spot, from two and a half to three feet deep, and great care should be exercised in the for- mation and covering of the heaps. We are no advocates for large pits. We consider fifty bushels to be the best size, and our rea- sons for so thinking are, that our risk of loss by excess of heat or frost is thus reduced to a minimum; that such is a handy-sized pit to open and pick over during the snatches of fine weather that we may have in winter or early spring, and that fifty bushels just about make a convenient waggon load. Lay the heap upon a very light bottom of straw, just sufficien
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