Show do not be rough with potato after digging i 1 assault and battery on potatoes Is too expensive to practice and especially this season when prices are likely to be high 0 V Ilar denburg of the cornell university warns potato growers careless digging will cut and bruise the tubers and lower jower the market value but whoever huh has to store the crop over winter will shoulder the worst lossin loss in storage rots and shrinkage apples which are little more perishable than potatoes are carefully picked packed and stored professor fro fessor wardenburg enburg states yet potatoes are thrown into crates and dropped heavily into storage bruised stuck cut and wet tubers are subject to fungus rots and can be graded out at home and used before rot occurs after digging an hour in the sun will set the skins so unit that handling bundling will not peel them then the potatoes may be picked up in standard bushel crates and hauled directly to the storage it Is a waste of labor to pick in bash baskets da to empty the baskets in sacks and then to dump the sucks sticks besides it Is harder on the potatoes according to professor flar denburg who has been studying the subject in the field and at the new york state college of agriculture |