Coalville Times | 1904-09-16 | Page 4 | Liming Potatoes

Liming Potatoes. U A. O. Will the sprinkling ot potatoes po-tatoes with llmo while stored In tba cellar prevent their sprouting In tha spring? I have bad no personal experience In the use of llmo as a preventive of the sprouting habit of potatoea. There are two waya In which It might Inllu-ence Inllu-ence tho development of sprouts; one Is by drying up tho surface so that sprout growth would be checked! the othor Is by Influencing the temperature tempera-ture of the potato by the small Insula-(Ion Insula-(Ion afforded by tbe coat of lima. Thus effect, I Imagine, would not be worth considering. On the whole, therefore, t do not anticipate that the method would be at all effective. J. C.