Show DIGGING AND OF POTATOES I 1 GREATER CHEATER KECES BAin IN DIGGING AND HANDLING SAY specialist ION NEEDED in order that the present largo large losses of at potatoes may bo be eliminated and that conditions in the potato growing industry may bo be bettered in lr general genera 11 growers should exercise moro more anro in digging and handling the tubers tubers should boru worb toward the establishment and strict observance ki ot at grades and should carefully study marketing mark cUng neoda needs and conditions this la Is thoAd tho advice vico of specialists of tho the ottice co of markets and rural organization of the department in h recent pub jl li catlon cation farmers corn mercial handling grading and mar afar of potatoes EARLY AND LATE rotators rOTA TOIsa there are two do lInato crops of potatoes in this country each year the southern early or new oes which are perishable and tho the northern late potatoes which are only semi perish able tho the treatment ot or these crops must differ ly in the south digging begins in florida texas and southern louis latia in may alay and Is doni dona mostly by I 1 forks and plows in some of 0 the hot ter sections it has boon found advisable to plow up the potatoes potato ea in tho the lato evening and pick them early tho the following morning picking into ree rec tangular open slatted crates the state slats having rounded olgeir hits has boon beon found most moat satisfactory tho the potatoes should not bo be hauled loose booso in I 1 wagons as such sue it treatment mout may bruise them seriously for shipment the southern potatoes pota are packed in hampers i pe rs and double headed barrels in florida and la in barrels with burlap covers in other states along the atlantic alantic lantic coast coas la in texas sacka aro are it used a |