. Elements of agriculture; a text book for public schools. Agriculture. POTATOES. 83 potatoes while digging", and they should be picked up and sorted very soon after they are dug. Pota- toes are usually dug with a fork, but potato diggers with endless chain elevators do good work, and can be run deep enough to bring up all the potatoes whole and free from bruises. Storage. Dark cellars are preferable for stor- ing potatoes. Store in bins holding not more tharv three hundred bushels. Separate the bins with an air space, keep the temperature a little above freez- ing, and ventilate the cell
. Elements of agriculture; a text book for public schools. Agriculture. POTATOES. 83 potatoes while digging", and they should be picked up and sorted very soon after they are dug. Pota- toes are usually dug with a fork, but potato diggers with endless chain elevators do good work, and can be run deep enough to bring up all the potatoes whole and free from bruises. Storage. Dark cellars are preferable for stor- ing potatoes. Store in bins holding not more tharv three hundred bushels. Separate the bins with an air space, keep the temperature a little above freez- ing, and ventilate the cellar Fig. 25. This photograph illustrates the importance of selecting the potatoes which one wishes to use for seed from the vine at digging time. Each vine breeds quite true to type. If one selects from' the bin, and uses rather small tubers, he is apt to use a majority of tubers which came from vines which naturally produce small potatoes. Hills 8a and 8b were grown from pieces of the same tuber. Hills 6a and 6b were also grown from pieces of one tuber. This shows how true each tuber breeds to its 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 Shepperd, J[ohn] H. [from old catalog]; McDowell, John Chambers, 1867- [from old catalog] joint author. St. Paul, Minn. , Webb publishing company
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