Show STORAGE OF POTATOES As s soon as dug tubers Tuber sAre arc plied in heaps in shade when frosty weather cornea comes hole Is dug lor for them on high well drained ground layer of hay will prevent freezing in n answer to a query as to tho the best beat method of storing potatoes tho the rural now new yorker makes tho the following roily reply in storing potatoes wo we use neither collar nor loft As soon boon oa as tho the potatoes uro ara dug in the summer we pile them la in heaps heape under the shade of some largo trees sometimes we make cone shaped plies piles by dumping tho the baskets over the same earno point and letting the po pa spread out as they will abilo nt at other times wo we make ricks of them by laying two ralla rails on the ground w 7 summer heap of potatoes parallel to each other and about tow four feet apart and piling the potatoes just jus ns as high in between these two rails as wo we can without their sliding over them wo we then cover those piles with a layer of hay bay from one to two feet thick using the mast on top and laying it tea BO that it will shod rain in the fall as frosty weather comes on wo we dig holes from two to three foot deep and from eight to twelve feet in diameter on high well drained ground the bottom and sides of these theao holes are then lined with about a one toot foot layer of hay and the potatoes poured carefully into them thein they are piled up as aa high as possible without their spreading out ev 20 ax winter pit over tho the edge of the holo hole A A layer of hay about two foot deep la is spread over the he potatoes above ground after which a layer of 0 soll soil about one toot foot deep la is thrown over the hay this much hay and soll la Is usually sufficient to protect p tho the potatoes potato ea from freezing here in south jersey however it matters little it it if they do fre freeze eze so long as they not removed from the pits while frozen brozen tr ozen as aa they thaw out so eo gradually injury la Is done they can be left in the pits until the first of april after which they will begin to sprout it if the weather Is warm in using this method of storing we have never experienced any loss losa except one year when we left thera them in tho the summer heaps so BO long that an early freeze caught them be boro they were burled buried |