| Show spud harvest study would cut I 1 damages preliminary work to determine tho the points in potato harvesting and handling where bruising injury occurs with a view to developing methods for avoiding such damage wax was started in north dakota last fall perry V Hemp hemphill hempel hl associate agricultural economist of the north dakota experiment station reports A survey was made by the e ex 1 pediment peri ment station to in cooperation with regional potato laboratory in fa east grant forks samples were taken immediately after digging from the picker sacks standing in the field from sacks on the truck at warehouse the before unload unloading in 91 and andi from the bins immediately at af ter unloading it was noted that the percentage of bruising increased during each operation after digging it was found 11 per cent of the potatoes were bruised after picking 17 per cent were bruised after trucking the percentage bruised we went rit up to 18 and after binning 41 per cent were bauls bruised ed it was noted an increase of 23 per cent may be due to the binning process alone |
