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Show ; KEEP SEED POTATOES COOL m By Win. II. Underwood, Illinois. mmml Potatoes intended for need Hhould II be kept hard and plump during the winter, and this can be done only by keeping them so cool that they will I not sprout. H i H When potatoes sprout they take M ' part of tho starch that is stored up M I ' in them and manufacture. It into living H cells. This, energy is all wasted for H the sprouts have to be pulled off. H Some farmers make it a point to H ".sprout" their potatoes once or twice H . 1 1 during the winter, this being done to B ' I prevent their growing. But the B I 'j amount of energy thus lost is consld- H I 'I erable and tho loss increases as the H j I winter draws tc a close. M I raiso potatoes In large quantities, H ' '( and each year place them in cold H 1 storage. I prefer to pay tho expense H of the storage and bo sura that they H .( aro kept in a perfectly plump state, H , rather than to keep them in a room H I ! with a high temperature, as is done !by some. In tho spring tho potatoes come out of tho cold storage house In perfect , condition, and it takes "but a few wcoka H j for them to develop strong sproifts H ' that rlso out of tho soil and develop H strong stalks and leavca. H ' Many farmers havo not the oppor- H tunlty to put their potatoes in cold H - Htorage houses, but they hhould en- H v dcavortto keep their potatoes at a H very low temperature. Tho nearer H ?.Z degrees potatoes aro kept, tho |