PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 



The following figures show that at a cost of Rs. 5-11-0 per ton it is 

 possible to preserve the potatoes in large quantities : — 



Period of storage 3| months, end of February to middle of June. 

 Details of cost per ton of potatoes preserved. 



Rs. A. p. 

 Cost of petrol . ...... 1 



Labour necessary for lifting the potatoes into the chamber 



and out of it . . . . . . . . 6 



Cost of bags 3 



Selection charges . . . . . . .240 



Total . 5 11 



Calculating that a man has to invest Es. 5-11-0 over each ton of 

 potatoes he preserves, he can sell these potatoes at enormous profit 

 during the next sowing season. In Bombay the potatoes are sold at 

 Rs. 60 per ton at harvest and Rs. 180 a ton at the next sowing. If he 

 does not sell his produce off soon after harvest, as he most often does 

 for fear of moths and rots, he will be able to realize not lesa than Rs. 75 

 behind every ton he preserves (making due allowance for dryage 15 per 

 cent, and rejections 25 per cent.). If he tries to preserve them in the 



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