Show STORAGE OF POTATOES I 1 As soon as dug tubers are in heaps in shade when frosty ather comes hole Is dug for them on high well drained ground layer of hay will prevent freezing in answer to a query as to the best method of storing potatoes the rural hural new yorker makes the following reply in storing potatoes we use neither cellar nor loft As soon as the potatoes are dug in the summer we mo pilo them in heaps under the shade of somo some large trees sometimes we me male make cone cone shaped plies piles by dumping the baskets over the same point and letting the potatoes spread out as they will while at other times we m e mike ricks of them the in by laying la ing two rails on the ground y vyt ka k YI 6 Y U bs ai summer heap of potatoes parallel to each other and about tour four acet apart and piling the potatoes just us high in between these two rails as v ne e can without their sliding over them wo we then cover coer these piles with alair a lavar of hav han from one to two feet thick using the most on top and laying la ing it so that it m will ill shed rain in the fall as frosty frost m weather eather comes on NN we e dig holes from two amo to three feet deep and from eight to twelve feet in diameter on high well drained ground the bottom and sides of these holes are then lined with about a one foot lay las er ot of hay bay end and the potatoes poti toes poured carefully careful into them they are piled up as high as possible without their spreading out alno I 1 A A ck oe oo 00 6 60 odon 1 5 r I 1 21 1 it 4 0 11 1 1 V winter pit over the edge of the hole bole A layer laver ot of hay bay about two feet deep is spread over the potatoes above ground after m which aich EL a laser laer ot of soil about one toot foot deep is thrown over the hay this much hay and soil is usually sufficient to pro protect te t the potatoes from freezing here 1 in ca south jersey gioi however over it matters li lit t tle tie it if they do freeze so long as they vre ro not removed from the pits pita while frozen as they thaw out so gradually that no injury Is done they can be left in the pits until the first of april after which the will begin to sprout it if the weather meather Is warm in using this method of storing we us have never experienced any loss except orie one vear ear m when hen we left them in the summer heaps so long that an early freeze caught them before they were buried |