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utmost importance that the bugs be kept, in subjection. As soon as 
the tops are ripe, either from natural causes or disease, the tubers 
will be better off in the cellar than in the ground. 
■So, unless selling for early market, when they are dry while the 
tops are yet quite green, the next thing in order will be digging and 
storing away. 
As the only really successful diggers are pretty expensive, a farmer 
who raises but an acre or two of potatoes will have to dig them by 
tlieold fashioned back-breaking method, which, however, is thorough 
if it is hard and slow. This is where the disadvantage of the small 
grower comes in more than anywhere else. With several acres of 
potatoes the owner could not afford to pass a single season without 
one of the best potato diggers, and he will save money with it even 
the first year. 
If you are particular to have a very fine flavored potato, don’t let 
it lie exposed to the sun only just long enough to dry the surface. 
Do not let it heat clear through as it must be cooled off again before 
putting into bins or barrels in the cellar. Potatoes soon become 
under the action of the sun like the leaves, green and bitter. Now 
is the time to save out seed potatoes for another year, especially so 
if digging by hand. When you come to an extra productive hill 
throw out one side the largest ones, it won’t hurt these for seed if 
they do get sunburned a little. 
To keep potatoes in fine condition they want to be kept perfectly 
dormant: some 10° above the freezing point all through the winter 
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