Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-07-31
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
3 HOW To STORE POTATOES

Cedar Falls, July 26.-Editor Times
Republican: Dear Sir: Your request of
June q has been received but / have
been too busy to answer in detail in re-
gard to storing and handling potatoes
for late spring use. j will briefly say:
First Unjust have good seed and va
riety. This is necessary, for potato of
low vitality will hot keep sound and
hard in the best of repositories. OF late
years have selected the Rural New
Yorker No. for seed; however, as the
Vitality on this variety will become SO
low in three or four years they will not
yield satisfactorily OF keep well. l get
new seed al least every other year L
find / get the best results from central
Michigan potatoes. aitho | lave had fair
results from Wisconsin seed, but they
don't resist the blight or field rot as We'll
as the Michigan seed. After the first of
october / dig my potatoes, piling them
in long piles six feet wide a the bottom,
peaking up sharp and covering at once
with siX-foot boards on each side, run
ring up and down, lightly nailed to 2x4
scantling this covered by a light coat
ing of fine dirt TO keep out all light. l
never let the sun shine on the potatoes
ih the lieia OF pilH ioisel eiiait Gu
tsip. Aitef 'iie "fashti mas oseoiiie eooi
enough, ABOUT tAs idss oi oe,to'ei' = 'i's
a pit eight feet wide. two and half 10
Tour feet dsep' aee9roife 10 uiaii'a : Y
ara as lnile aS htcsss'lIs' siaHeiiis .he
sides; covering fhis oy iaSine -N4 scahe-
lsns SIX 10 teh iNches I'd X IRON .ii,,
edSe OF pafk' naiilhs raitefs M or 40
To these nailihs on Two rips' M on
each SIDE. using the siS-loot poatus .'ia'
cover my temporary pits haiii'is .he'''
up and down as before except leaving
space at the feEo about Ter lheHss VIC
The entire length OF the pi' iof Nefillia :
Ton, covering TINS with nay or straw -
issen out light: covering me slass as ,as'
IS plled With three lisches OF iiiie uii.t
10 MI the PIT J make me q screen IRON,
two siN-lneh renee noafas' men si ID
hailed across two feet apati: iath halivo
or THESE one ana HFe-eshss 70 o,'S
ard lhree-four,hs inches apart leng'h-
Mise OF screen Ne poaid aci
on the end now hang TINS on a fratie
~ four rings or WirsS' starving toMaiae
the outlet so me potatoes Nili siaouaiis
un oil when shaken. me sf3ail i9o'a a
'-7
+ the lower eha on the screen hanging Over
the plt' as iase as the pi, Is hiieo ~!
4 w'thih TWO isee OF me Peah' OF ehe ro y,
J l move the screen aiohs uat'i II Is fui.
4 never put more man eSVehfS-llve nun
dred nushels IN one o't, heSer aiiowihe
4 potatoes nearer ROOF thah SIX ihches
AFTER pi. Is inii pulla sTsttiiatoF
eacn enc o. i'it' ~ Ase apos'
Iooi' ana every siNisth lsft ihahs
Ventliator IRON u i'lch poafas, ms lesl
naiiiils ~ Gown o'i psah % leol' eosei /,
ing potlom ~ peah WIN eWo i iilei
noaros iehsehMise. ~ 1As ssou!ia pe
sins TO freeze put an aaai'lohat cove
fot coarse manure is'cheS 'h'ck' sooi
after ano'her plahkst OF hches " ma
dirt put on being cafetul 70 nav
every spot covered and sopa ram lish
covers on ven'ilators isahs nat -Anou
holidays or Wheh 'Ae thefh'oinets
Far. reaches ~ degrees pelo" zero
Z commence covering again Wl'iii Noats
: manure uhth anout ehs hrse "eeh !
January. nave one 3oo' q iiiaii.'i
on when. II prolefiN dolis, coNeiii}!
ground = iee' oaeh rom Ply WIN iiia Z I