Show STORAGE OF SWEET POTATOES uncertainty of being able to keep tubers through winter reduce area devoted to crop it sweet potatoes are kept until february and march they will bring a much better price ahrn in november or december the uncertainty of being able to keep the sweet potatoes during the winter reduces tho area planted but sweet potatoes can be preserved quite satisfactorily if close attention Is given to the subject those who are provided with suitable quarters for storage purposes and give attention to the details of dig ging and drying the tubers are well paid for their extra work the sapet potato had a thin skin which Is easily bruised bruised potatoes arc very susceptible to decay when the potatoes cannot be subjected to artificial heat to dry they should be thoroughly dried in the sun the temperature at which they leem to keep best is between 50 and 65 degrees F in some localities the common method of storage is to place the sweet potatoes in a cone shaped pile containing from 1000 to pounds the pile Is then covered with a layer of dry fine bay or straw followed by a layer of corn storage or sweet potatoe Pot atoe stalks and on top this two or thi tec inches of sand or dirt Is placed others make piles like an oblong three feet high and four by ten feet at the base this Is covered over a frame properly built tor the purpose two or three inches of earth being placed over the frame stratifying the sweet potatoes in sand has also given satisfactory results |