POWDERY DRY-ROT OF THE POTATO. 15 



It is suggested that, when it is necessary to hold potatoes for a 

 time before shipping and it is not feasible to put them into a good, 

 cool storage cellar, the experiment be tried of leaving them unsacked 

 in the field in long, low piles or ricks, covered with sufficient earth to 

 protect them from sun and frost, and that they be sent from these 

 piles to market with as little intervening delay as practicable. 



It is perhaps hardly necessary to warn growers that the dry-rot 

 parasite attacks most readily bruised or wounded potatoes and that 

 care in digging and handling, to leave them with nature's protecting 

 skin intact, is a great insurance against loss. 

 [CIr. 110) 



