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STORING. 



Potatoes should be stored when thoroughly dry, and in sandy or 

 dry soils they may be placed in shallow pits, and covered with a 

 mound of earth to protect them from frost. Before covering witli 

 soil a layer of straw should intervene, with an occasional tuft pro- 

 jecting to the surface so as to part with excess of moisture and 

 prevent heating. They may also be kept in a cool and well venti- 

 lated cellar if perfectly dry, but in all cases they should be 

 shielded from the light, as its presence produces solanum, or that 

 active, poisonous, bitter principal found in potato sprouts or in the 

 green skins of potatoes exposed to the influence of light. 



Premiums Awarded by the American Institute, 1863. 



AGRICULTURAL. 



P. T. Quinn, Newark, N. J., for an essay on the culti- 

 vation of the potato Silver Medal. 



D. A. Bulkeley, Williamstown, Mass., for seedling 



potatoes _ Silver Medal, 



John W. Bailey, Plattsburgh, N. Y., for the Adirondac 



grape Silver Medal, 



mechanical. 



Charles Fontayne, No. 561 Broadway, N. Y., for a 



rapid photographic printing machine _ Gold Medal. 



Wm. L. Fish, Newark, N. J., Wm. D. Russell, agent. 

 No. 206 Pearl street. New York, for a successful 

 and economical application of the burning of kero- 

 sene oil for the purposes of heating and cooking.. Silver Medal. 



G. Tagliabue, No. 208 Pearl street, New York, for a 



coal oil pyrometer „ Silver Medal. 



Henry Waterman, No. 239 Cherry street. New York, 

 for a barrel elevator, used at the Metropolitan 

 Mills Silver Medal. 



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