Harvesting and Storage 201 



ceiling or walls, a fire should be started immediately and 

 suflScient ventilation given to dry the' moisture out of 

 the house. 



4. Except in unusual cases do not sort potatoes 

 after they have been stored with hopes of stopping the 

 decay, for in so sorting some sound potatoes will be 

 bruised and the diseased spores on the decayed and 

 decaying potatoes will be scattered into the air and 

 carried through this medium to the sound potatoes which 

 have been bruised in resorting. Thus in a few days 

 as many decayed potatoes will be found in the- resorted 

 bin as before they were assorted. If potatoes have been 

 properly cured, even though one potato in the center of 

 the bin rots, it is not likely to contaminate the potato 

 next to it. 



Outhuildings for storage-houses. 



Some of the most successful sweet potato storage- 

 houses are old tenant houses, cribs, or other outbuild- 

 ings that have been converted at small cost. This prac- 

 tice is very practicable and can often be done with a 

 small outlay of capital. Thus, proper storage facilities 

 are brought in reach of everyone. In remodeling old 

 houses, care should be taken to have the walls double 

 and tight, so as to obtain a dead air space between the 

 walls. The building should be ceiled, the ceiling cov- 

 ered with building paper and receiled with 1 by 4 inch 

 tongue-and-groove ceiling, or flooring. In converting 

 brick, concrete, or stone houses, it will be best to build 

 a tight wooden wall several inches from the masonry 

 wall and then proceed with the bin construction as if the 

 house were wooden throughout. In constructing the 



