Show raiB VENT AND SHIPPING LOSSES IN YOUR POTATOES are you going to loso lose tho the profits 1 and pay the tha freight on your potatoes this year farmers are informed yearly that their potatoes havo have rot ted led while in transit and that the freight la Is charged to them it a shipper receives a carload of decaying tubers tho next year he be la Is likely to avoid the iho district where they were grown doea it pay tho farmer shipper or buyer ot of potatoes to have these losses occur surely surel T not A largo part of this trouble comes from improper handling of tho the po lathes before they are placed on the tha car in one case known the grading machine had throe three nails protruding up just high enough to give giro many of the tubers a gouge oa they thru the grader inoculating the potatoes with decay germs which aro are always prevalent in tho the bill this same grower had throe three carloads condemned because of transit or shipping rot usually called leak which Is as a rule caused by a fungus this fungus Is very tory abundant in almost all solids and when the potato is injured tho the fungus enters and causes the very wet bad smelling rot in its normal condition the potato tuber Is well protected from most decay organisms by its it akin but lust just as soon as the tuber Is fa brul bruised or injured it la Is lett left to the mercies ot the numerous rots rota dry iota rots brought in tho the flold field on cut or bruised b tubers often are the sources of infection which decays a 0 large part ot of the tubers in the bin in grading potatoes all cut bruised and small tubers should bo be culled they lower the selling price ot of the remainder avoid all careless cara car leaa etess handling of potatoes by those who dig and haul thorn them A bruised or decayed tuber infects others quarantine such potatoes by culling L F botany department utah agricultural experiment station 4 NEWSPAPER association MEMBER no |