206 POTATOES. 



low Stone Turnips, which often yield as much as the 

 Potatoes, there will be a net from both crops of 

 about two hundred dollars an acre. Last Summer 

 we dug fi'om an acre of Early Rose, one hundred 

 and ten barrels, and sold them at three dollars and 

 twenty-five cents Tper barrel, for table use. 



Haevesting. — Although we have tested numer- 

 ous Potato-digging machines, there is ^one that has 

 given us satisfaction. We still hold to the old 

 method of removing the stalks, then, with a plough, 

 throwing a furrow away from either side of the row, 

 and turning out the Potatoes with the digging-fork. 

 By this method a man can easily get out thirty 

 bushels a day, at an expense of from five to six cents 

 a bushel. 



Stoeing Potatoes. — Potatoes for table use should 

 be stored in a cool, dry, dark cellar. They will 

 keep better if a small quantity of soil is mixed in 

 with them at the time of putting them away. When 

 Potatoes are left exposed to the sunlight, they soon 

 turn green, a bitter principle is evolved, and when 

 cooked, they have a nauseating and unpleasant taste. 

 Every observing farmer knows that it often happens, 

 eitlier from the washing away of the earth, or fi'om 

 careless hoeing, that a portion of the Potatoes in a 

 " hill " is left exposed to the light. These Potatoes 

 soon change color, and are worthless for table use. 

 This kind of exposure also hastens decay, no matter 

 where the Potatoes are kept. E-\-en when purchased 

 for family use, in small quantities, say a barrel or a 

 bushel at a time, they should be kept in a dark 

 corner of the cellar. 



