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about $65. This can be drawn by two stout horses, but 

 four are better. It does clean work, leaving nearly all the 

 tubers in sight, and throwing the tops and weeds to one side. 

 It injures but few tubers. In large fields I estimate the sav- 

 ing from its use, as compared with hand digging, to amount 

 to nearly $5 per acre. 



Potatoes should be dug when the soil is dry, and should 

 be exposed to the sun and air only long enough to allow 

 exterior moisture to dry off. 



It appears to be best to sort as picked up, to avoid rehand- 

 ling. Pick up first the merchantable tubers into bushel 

 baskets, and empty into sacks in which they can be most 

 conveniently handled. 



Store in a dry, cool cellar, in piles or bins not more than 

 about two and one-half feet deep, and with opportunity for 

 air to circulate beneath and through the pile. 



