New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-10-19
FOR TILE FAR MER.
USEFUL INFORMATION ABOUT
FARMING TOPICS;
Root and Vegetable Storing About
the Spud - Cutting Corn
Grass Seeding
GUS Matters5
Root and Vegetable Storing.

Root and Vegetable Storing.
Some crops are much sooner injured
by frost or light freezing than others
and to avoid damage should be har-
vested in good season, says the Or
ange Judd Farmer. 1t is necessary
to store away where they are intend
ed to be kept all Winter, says an ex-
change, but the safest plan is to store
where they will at least be safe from
injury by frost or light freezing. Sweet
potatoes are generally the first crop
to be dug, after these beets and car
rots and then the Irish potatoes.
Turnips stand considerable frost but
q good freeze seriously injuries them
Cabbage will stand a freeze, while
satisfy and parsnips can be left out all
Winter if desired, although usually
it is best to dig and store supply to
use during the Winter before hard
freezing weather sets in. A very good
plants to digand sort, carefully taking
out all the small unmarketable speci-
mems and also any that are bruised
or injured. Fruit or vegetables to be
stored for long keeping must be sound.
Store them where there is a good
circulation of air and yet in a place
where they can be readily protected
IN case a sudden change OF weather
should make it necessary. In this
way a good opportunity will be given
them to dry out before storing away
and they will keep much better than
if they are dug and stored away i'm
nlediately. With this work, as with
much else that is done on the farm, it
is better to get it done in good season
than to be even a little behind, as an
early frost often does considerable
| damage which a little work in proper
season would have readily avoided.
By sorting when harvesting some
work in handling may be avoided,
and the unmarketable part be fed
| out tosthe stock which if left until the
product is either sold or used, would
| be lost. Irish potatoes especially
should never be left exposed to the
sun any longer than is strictly
necessary, as they are easily damaged.
But all products will keep better if
they are well dried before storing
away. With care in handling much
loss by bruising may be avoided and
when a crop has grown it seems only
common prudence to take pains to
save it in best condition possible and
it is therefore best to arrange to
harvest in good season, to sort and
dry carefully and then either mar ket
or store away in AS good a condition
as possible. But before selling make
sure OF a sufficient supply for home
use as it is rarely profitable to sell
products in The Autumn and then be
obliged to buy the next Spring before
anything cam be grown to take their
place.
About the Spud:
Speaking about the use of aspud on
a farm, writer in the Ohio Farmer
gives the following personal expert
ence:
have used a. sput1, or light marrow
spade, which ever YOU please to call
it, for the last fifteen years to destroy
! burdocks. My farm was overrun with
that pest when came in possession,
but NOW they are nearly wiped out
BY cutting them off below the crown
they cannot sprout. I had my spud
made at that time In tine following
manner: l got broken cross. cut
saw-piate, took it to q blacksmith.
had it cut about 5 inches long, and
cut tapering, the top OF plate cut
square across, and the pointed
end cut q little rounding
f.