NOTES ON THE ROTTING OF POTATOES. 



Yields from fifty-five hills of ten varieties potatoes at time of 



digging. 



Variety. 



Date of 

 harvesting. 



Unspkayed. 





C " 



(§5 



SS 



Sprayed. 



O m 



OS 



DiS 



Early Michigan 



Average 



Bovee 



Average 



Early Ohio 



Average 



Gem of Aroostook . . 



Average 



Irish Cobbler 



Average 



Hulett's Rust Proof. 



Mill's Mortgage Lifter 



Average 



Green Mountain 



Average 



Polaris 



Average 



Maggie Murphy 



Average 



Average of 5 earlier varieties 

 Average of 5 later varieties. . . 



Sept. 8 

 Oct. 7 . 



Sept. 8 . 

 Oct. 7 . 



Sept. 8 . 

 Oct. 7 . , 



Sept. 8 

 Oct. 7 . 



Sept. 8 , 

 Oct. 7 . 



Sept. 8 . 

 Oct. 7 . 



Sept. 8 

 Oct. 7 . 



Sept. 8 

 Oct. 7 . 



Sept. 8 . 

 Oct. 7 . . 



Sept. 8 

 Oct. 7 . 



Sept. 8 

 Oct. 7 . 

 Sept. 8 

 Oct, 7 . 



78 



78 

 78 



60 

 57 

 59 



49 

 68 

 59 



71 



72 

 72 



111 



107 

 109 



153 



105 



74 

 76 

 75 

 104 



•All discolored potatoes are here included. 



The potatoes as soon as dug were put in bags, and stored in 

 a cool cellar, so as to be kept dry and not subject to heat. The 

 very last of December and early in January the potatoes were 

 carefully assorted, and any potatoes that showed the slightest 

 indications of even incipient decay, were rejected. In this, as in 

 all such work by the Station, many potatoes were rejected that 

 in ordinary sorting would be sent to market. The pounds of 

 apparently sound potatoes that were put into the cellar at the 

 date of harvest, the pounds of sound potatoes that were found 



