Show Potatoes Are Improved if Dried After Digging The Time time between frost and heavy freezing is oftentimes too short to permit potatoes to ripen before dig dIg- ging Late planting prolongs the grow growing ng season Into late fall and the crop Is barely made maele before heavy freezing The result is Immature tubers with poor keeping qualities The yield may be satisfactory but the keeping and eating qualities are poor If f weather conditions and time permit the potatoes should he be left lefton lefton lefton on the ground for three or four hours after being dug This will dry off of the tubers and har harden en the sl skin tn thereby Insuring better keeping Beeping g qualities When the picking g is done Immediately Immediate Immediate- ate ate- ly after the tubers timbers e rs' rs are are dl dug ding too m much much 1 moisture is carried to the h cellar Unless Unless Un Un- less storage c conditions pre tir very cry good soft rot and decay are y very ry apt to tl cause heavy damages pigging bb g storage and many other other- problems of the potato grower rower are discussed at length In a ii bulletin distributed distributed dis dis- by the Colorado Experiment Station t at Fort Collins |