Show Spud Harvest Study Would Cut Damages Preliminary work to determine the points in potato harvesting and handling where bruising injury with a view to developing methods for avoiding such was started in North Dakota last Perry V. associate agricultural economist of the North Dakota experiment A survey was made by the experiment station in cooperation with regional potato laboratory in East Grant Samples were taken Immediately after from the picker sacks standing in the from sacks on the truck at the warehouse before and from the bins immediately after It was noted that the percentage of bruising increased during each After digging it was found 11 per cent of the potatoes were after picking 17 per cent were after trucking the percentage bruised went up to and after binning 41 per cent were It was noted an in crease of 23 pet cent may be due to the binning process |