Show PILING POTATOES ON FLOOR OF WARM BARN IS QUITE COSTLY S sweating eating occurs when the tubers are newly dug piling potatoes in tinge huge heaps on the floor of a warm barn bard just after they have been dug Is expensive business so one grower near columbus ol umbus found when an extension specialist from the ahlo estate tate university examined his tubers his potatoes had been dug hauled to the barn and put into a pile approximately 12 feet long 0 6 feet wide and 7 feet deep the pile contained several hundred bushels of potatoes and a heavy percentage of them were rotting 1 cuts and bruises on the potatoes suffered as they were harvested were in part responsible for the develop of the rot the specialist found and the action of the bacteria causing decomposition was being hurried by moisture on the potatoes which assisted the growth of the and also gave them opportunity to travel from potato to to potato vota potatoes toes should be kept in crates after they are dug until they have had to cure says E K B vegetable specialist in the extension service the process of transpiration goes on in the tubers from one to three weeks after they have been dug and during that period the potatoes will sweat t and water will collect on their outer surfaces they should have time to dry and cure until this period Is over |