East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1921-06-10
FROM The COUNTY AGENT

| never thought it paid to try t,
keep them. You can nearly alwa, 5
sell them at digging time and buy
back in the fall after the Northern
crop comes on the market for less
money and save trouble and risk {:
but | think that am qualified It
talk on keeping them too as | have
kept them over successfully. II
the first place YOU do not want to
leave them out in the sun after
they are dug, but carry them
once to the shade and keep them
there. You want to spread them
out thin in a dark, cool, dryl place.
| do not know that light hurts th,
keeping qualities of the potatoe.
but it turns them green and rulns
the taste of them. You can gen
orally get the ideal conditions in Il
crib or barn loft and where it l.
too light; | have seen it very sue.
cessfullY excluded with a light co
vering Of hay or fodder. but this
covering must be light so as to
permit free circulation of air,
After the hot weather has passed
you can bulk them and store tor
the winter In any frost proof place,
a cellar being an ideal place.
| might say in this connection
that it is always a mistake to build
a house without a cellar. A good
cellar is not subject to the wide
range Of temperature that wehave in
all buildings above ground, 1t is
an ideal place in which to store
your canned fruit, rnnd your in,
cahstor,., salt your meat. store
vegetables. keep your milk etc.
| am having a good manv. inqui-
res about second crop irish pOta-
toes and | think that ia the kind
that you ought TO grow for your
winter supply. The most certain
crop is not a second crop at all, but
a late crop of some variety like the
Lookout Mountain. | am going
to thy and locate some seed. |
think that the triumph and irish
potato excels the Lookout
Mountain potato in quality but a.
not nearly so certain a crop tho
grown quite successfully in some
sections.
In my own experience | found
the cold storage seed that had been
kept over from last season were
much more apt to come up to a
stand than seed from this wears
crop. | am going to investigate
the possibility of getting some cold
storage seed.
| have talked to a number of
farmers who succeeded in getting
their first crop of triumph seed to
come up and am convinced that
there is more in the treatment OF
the land than in the handling of
the seed. 1t takes rich land to
make second crop of irish potatoes
aud land that is well supplied with
moisture. The land should be
turned at least month in advance
of the planting date and kept har-
rowed and worked to store up all
Of the.water that falls The potatos
should be planted late in the af-
ternoon or on a cloudy day so that
the sun will have no chance to dry
out the furrow and they should be
planted in burrows not less than 4
inches deep and narrowed off level
after they are planted and kept
narrowed off regularly TIL they are
up to q stand. g..
If you want to use some Of your
first crop seed, and ! mean to try
some again dig them as soon as
the potatoes are fully mature and
spread them them out in q cool
shady place, preferably whsre there
is some light and leave them to
turn green aud about the last OF
July plant them as directed above,