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CHECKING THEIR instruments and some Hruschka is holding a recording thermom
of the seed potatoes after their arrival in eter which will record temperatures for
Lancaster last week are Howard W. Hrusch- a month. Behind them are two alcohol heat
ka, left, and Wilson Smith, both from the ers (LF Photo)'
USDA Plant Industry Station at Beltsville.
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WINDLE’S HATCHERY
COCHRANVILLE, PA.
Machine Cutting, Forced Healing
Making Potato Planting Easier
I One of the most tedious chores
in farming is on the way out with
a new process being developed
by Eastern States Cooperative and
the United States Department of
Agriculture.
It is a method where-by seed
potatoes are cut mechanically
and shipped to the farmer ready
to plant. The project is now scv
■ eral years old
Pre-cutting in seed potatoes is
possible because of a property
peculiar to potatoes called “sub
ornation” This means that a
cut potato will grow a new skin
after it has been cut if the
' proper conditions of temperature
and humidity are available.
The USDA is now developing
a method of forced subenzation
while the potatoes are in ship
ment.
Ihis was used in a boxcar of
potatoes received here in the
County last week. The car was
sealed in Maine and opened only
after it had arrived in Lancaster.
Inside the car were alcohol
burners to keep the temperature
at an even level between 60 and
70 degrees. Th humidity stayed
at about 90 per cent,
CHARLES B.HOOBER
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Lancaster Farming, Friday, April 4, 1958—11
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Fans powered by a generator
run from the moving whee’s
of the car kept the air in mo
tion, thus keeping the tempera
tures uniform throughout the
par, even inside the piles of
sacks
Last 5 ear was the first time
that major field trials were made
with the precut seed. Only snmil
small amounts ot the seed were
available to each farmer.
Results of the trial showed that
germination and yield were
as good with the pre-cuts as
with hand cut seed There was
much more variation in yield and
than there was between types of
seed..
This will he the first year that
the cooperative will have enough
seed apailable to make carload
lot shipments.
The machines that cut the po
tatoes sort the tubers for sue
and then make the number oi
(Continued on page fourteen)
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