Show T AND SHIPPING LOSSES ON YOUR CROP OF OP SPUDS are you going to lose the r profits fits and pay ray the freight on yoni your potatoes this yeat yea 1 partner tra ar am informed yearly that bleir potatoes have rotted while in transit and that the freet Is I 1 charged to t them hem if a shipper receives a carload of decaying tuber tubers the next year he be la Is likely to avoid the district where they were grown does it aay ay the farmr shipper or buyer of potatoes pota to have these losses mccurt curt bur sur ly nott A large are part of ibis trouble conic comes fros improper handling of the potatoes before they are placed on the ear in one owa case known the grading machine had three nails protruding just high enough to give many of the tubers a gouge as they through the grad or inoculating the potatoes with decay germ germs which are always prevalent in the soil oil till this same grower had three carloads cat loada condemned because of transit or chipping rot usually called leak alich is a st rule caused by a fungus this fungus is very abundant in almost all solids and when the potato ii Is injured Injure tl the fungus enters and cause causes the very wet bad smelling rot tot in 11 ill normal condition the potato tuber Is i well protected from moat most de cay organisms mj by its skin but juantas utts al the tuber Is fit brud bruised or injured it is left to the mercies of the iner on otti rote rots dy D y rots brought in front iron the fiell on cut or broiled bruised tubers often are the source of infection which decays a urge large part of the tubers stored in the bin I 1 la n grading r potatoes all cut bruised an and d am small all tubers should be culled they lower the selling price of the remain der alsid all careless handling haud ling of po tato e a by hose those who dig and haul them A bruised or decayed tuber infects oth ers quarantine such potatoes by cull ing L P botany department utah agricultural experiment elation |