Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 17, 1920, Page 7

" bruising this product. The question WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 17, 1920 Question of Proper Handiing of Crop Deserves More Attention. RESENTS ROUGH TREATMENT One of the 'Big Drawbacks to Indus- . try 18 Inability of Farmer to Keep Tubers in Storage—Field Diseases Are Serious. (Prepared by the United States Depart- " .ment of Agriculture.) Sweet. potatoes deserve as careful handling as apples. In fact, they will not stand the rough handiing that ap- ples .are often subjected to in grading .and packing. . . This statement may surprise many sweet potato growers who are not in the habit -of - taking. pains to .avoid of proper handling of sweet potatoes is one of several points touched on in :a publication just issued by the bureau ‘of plant industry of the United States departmeht of agriculture, Farmers’ Bulletin No. 1059, entitled “Sweet Po- tato Diseases.” LN A One of the chief barriers to the .extension of sweet potato growing in ‘this country is the inability of farm- ‘2rs to keep sweet potatoes in storage so that they can be placed on the market in winter when prices are good. Consequently most of the crop grown is consumed locally or sold at digging ;time when prices are low. A few :sweet potatces go to northern mar- - kets in winter, and ‘even in the South ‘ they capnot be obtained with.any, de- gree of certainty at that. season. Specialists of the department of agri- . gulture believe that if storage methods #hd principles were better understood, far more sweet potatoes would be available for wWinter use. Must Fight Diseases. However, the success of the indus- . try does not depend on careful han- dling alone. There are several seri- eus fleld diseases, as this bulletin ‘points out, the’ best known of which are black rot, stem rot and foot rot. The storage of sweet potatoes affect- ed with black rot must necessarily re- ‘ sult in heavy loss, since the disease spreads rapidly throughout the bins. Stem rot, on the other hand, does not produce any marked decay in storage, but it may. open the way for storage rot organisms to enter the’potato. After sweet potatoes are dry and the surface moisture has dried off . they should be carefully- laid in con- tainers holding about a -bushel and '+ hauled to a storage house. If the po- : tatoes -are to -be stored in bins they . should :be poured carefully from the containers into the bins. There are - some advantages in storing in crates :rather than in bins. Crates permit A Field of Sweet Potatoes, the Rais- ing of Which Can Be Made Highly Profitable, . the free circulation of air among the potatoes, a condition which cannot be 80 readily obtained if they are piled in a bin. The crate has an added ad- ‘vantage in that by its use as. many || potatoes can ‘be taken out for the market at any’ one time during the _winter-as are desired without disturb- ing the remainder. Sweet potatoes will not stand frequent handling, and ‘for that'reason it is unwise to disturb a pile or bin unless they are all mar- keted at the same time. Dig Late for Storage. Potatoes intended for storage should be dug as late in the fall as is consist- ‘ent with weather conditions. This is “usually just preceding frost or after the first light frost. Frozen potatoes will not keep, and it is likely that a heavy frost will injure .them to ‘some ex- tent.. It is advisable after a heavy frost to cut the vines at once and dig. To wait too long may mean that in or- der to avoid freezes the potatoes must be dug during bad weather. After the potatoes are dug they should be ‘left exposed long enough to dry off the surface moisture. On a bright ‘day this would require but an hour or ‘two. On a very hot day, however, it would be desirable $ hurry the pota- * toes to the shade. after their surfaces have been dried in the sun. Full details_60hstoring sweet pota- soes are contained in Farmers’ Bul- letin No. 970 of the United States de- JDertment of agriculture, - i Material Should Be Hauled Away and Used for Stopping Washing of Fertile Soil. Brush: and straw piles that will be in .the way next spring should be hayled away and used to st6p soll washing, Aside from using straw as bedding for live stock or:\spremllng it over fiélds, this is:perhaps the hest use to make of it. Everyone has seen enormous gullies cut in a single season and years spent in trying to undo’ the mischief. - The moral is stop the wash- ing while the ditch Is small. Small gullles that have just started in corn fields or wheat fields, or even in pastures or meadows, may often he stopped with a little straw. Even cattle paths in pastures offen deepen so that they need such treatment. In other places it is necessary to plan to sow sorghum to stop washing, but if the gullies are more than a foot deep and two or three feet wide it is usu- ally better to use brush, according to the University of Missouri College of Agriculture, " The brush dam gives better results it straw is mixed with the brush to help hold the dirt. Wherever -the fall is great enough to make the water cut geriously it is likely to be necessary o stake down the brush and straw so that they <vill not be washed away. The less busy winter time should be used in active work to stop losses from soil washing and in planning, next season’s field work so that the fields will be planted and cultivated across the slope or around the hill Then the rows will not run stfaight down the slope and thereby -furnish the steepest possible channel for the run-off from rains. Those who have such winter cover crops as rye to hold the soil in- place are fortunate. but those who ‘do not should not flatter themselves that no washing is going on even in winter when there Is less tainfall. N DO NOT OVERCROWD POULTRY Few Hens .in Small Yard Do Better Than Larger Number in Same Space—Room for Each. Better results will be obtained from a few hens in a small yard than from a larger number in the samg yard. The backyard poultry flock rarely will con- sist of more than 20 to 25 hens, and in many cases only a half-dozen hens are kept. For a flock of 20 to 25 hens a space of not less than 25 by 30 feet is’ required. From 20 to 30 square feet per hen _should usually be allowed. Subscribe for The Ploneer. _Bemidji Lodge No. 119, I 0. O. F., Beltrami Ave. and 4th St., meets every Friday evening at 8 o’clock. THIS WEEK FIRST -DEGREE C. J. Winter, N. G., Tel. 862J R. A. Hannah, Rec. Sec., Tel 719W T R SO TR ST IO A. Brose TOBACCONIST 400 Minnesota Avenue _ Keeps the best stock of Tobacco in the Northwest, also Pipes. We do Pipe Re- | pairing. BEMIDJI LODGE Loyal Order of MOOSE, NO. 1452, Meets first & third Tues. each month Cor. Minngsota Ave. and Third St. ‘ 8 P.M. Visiting brothers especially invited C. B. Hoyt, Secy. Phone 701W NEXT MEETING INSTALLATION OF OFFICERS | --EAT-- - Our Waiters . 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