. The potato; a practical treatise on the potato, its characteristics, planting, cultivation, harvesting, storing, marketing, insects, and diseases and their remedies . KIC;. 44—THE HOOVER DKIGER in a row. Several good diggers are made on this or three horses are used. With a mechanical digger, four to six acres can bedug per day, and eight to sixteen hands are requiredto pick up. The cost of digging should not exceed twocents per bushel, and may be much less. Another ad-vantage of a digger is that if the land is clean it needsharrowing only to be in excellent shape foi seeding towhea
. The potato; a practical treatise on the potato, its characteristics, planting, cultivation, harvesting, storing, marketing, insects, and diseases and their remedies . KIC;. 44—THE HOOVER DKIGER in a row. Several good diggers are made on this or three horses are used. With a mechanical digger, four to six acres can bedug per day, and eight to sixteen hands are requiredto pick up. The cost of digging should not exceed twocents per bushel, and may be much less. Another ad-vantage of a digger is that if the land is clean it needsharrowing only to be in excellent shape foi seeding towheat. CHAPTER XIIISTORING Potatoes may be stored in the open in piles coveredwith straw and earth, in cellars or root-houses, accord-ing to the climatic conditions. Piles.—These are useful for temporary storage inthe North. Dig a trench about 3 or 4 inches deep, 3feet wide, and as long as desired; make the bottom per-. FIG. 45—POTATO SHOVEL fe<5lly level and firm, so that a potato shovel (Fig. 45)may be used on it when moving the potatoes. Throwthe soil from the trench onto each side, making a bankabout 15 inches wide with it. This will give a troughabout 7 inches deep in which to empty the the potatoes neatly, so that the face of the pile atthe center will be 3 feet or so high. When sufficientpotatoes are stored, place about 3 inches thick of rye orwheat straw (oat straw being liable to heat and becomemouldy) with the butts down and heads up on thesides and one end of the pile, leaving the other endfor additional potatoes ( Fig. 46). Then cover the straw 147 148 THE POTATO with soil, beginning at the bottom and piling it towardthe apex; 2 or 3 inches thick will be sufficient nearthe top with the straw, and 6 or 7 inches at the the surface off by patting it with the spade so
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