Show I Do Not Be Rough With Potato After Digging Assault Assau t and battery on potatoes Is too expensive to practice and espe espe- especially this season when prices are likely to be high E E. E V V. V Hardenburg of ot the Cornell university warns potato growers Careless digging will cut and bruise the tubers and lower the market value but whoever er has to store the crop over winter will shoulder shoulder I der the worst loss in storage rots and andI I shrinkage Apples which are little more perishable perIshable perishable per per- than potatoes are carefully picked packed and stored Professor Hardenburg states Yet potatoes are thrown Into crates and dropped heavily heave ily Into storage Bruised stuck cut cutI I and wet tubers are subject to fungus rots and can be graded out at home and used before rot occurs After Arter digging g an hour in the sun will set the skins so that handling will not peel them Then the potatoes may be picked up In standard bushel crates and hauled directly to the stor stor- age It Is a waste of ot labor to pick In baskets to empty the baskets In sacks and then to dump the sacks besides It is harder on the potatoes according to Professor Hardenburg who has bas been stu studying the subject In the field and at the New York State College of ot Agriculture |