Action of CJieinicals on Potato- Tubers. 



Table 3a. 

 Percentages of moisture and chlorides calculated on air-dried 



tissue. 



Intact tubers (untreated) ... 69.98 



Intact tubers after 10 days' 



steeping, 10 per cent. ... — 



Intact tubers after 10 days' 



steeping, 15 per cent. ... — 



ETperi?ne?H: — T\vo lots (5 each) less mature thin-skinned 

 South Australian tubers, steeped in 15 per cent, brine for 11 

 days. 



Table 4. 

 Grams chlorides calculated as XaCl per 100 c.c. of solution. 



00 (b) 



At commencement ... .. 14.52 - 15,05 



After 11 days' steep ... 14.22 - 15.17 



E.rperiment : — Two lots (5 each) less mature thin-skinned 

 Victorian tubers, separately steeped in 10 per cent, and 15 per 

 cent, brines. 



Table 4b. 

 Percentages of moisture and chlorides calculated on air-dried 

 tissue. 



These results justify the statement that, in contradistinction 

 to peeled tubers, with unpeeled tubers, after long steeping in 

 10 per cent, or 15 per cent, brines, the amount of salt which 

 diffuses from solution into the tuber is of a relatively small 

 order of magnitude. 



