yTO. 81.


Gathering and preserving potatoes.
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Gathering and preserving potatoes.


Extracted from the Transactions Of the Society
OF Arts in London.


The usual mode at present practising for endeav-
curing to preserve potatoes is to leave them alter
digging, exposed 10 sun and air to dry. This ex-
posure generally causes them to haye bitter taste;
and may be remarked, that potatoes are never SO
sweet to the palate as when cooked Immediately al
ter digging. find that when potatoes are lett IN
large heaps pits in the ground, that fermentation
takes place which destroys the sweetest favour OF
the potatoes. In order to prevent that fermentation
and to preserve them from losing the original hne
and pleasant favour, my plan is, (and which expe-
rence proves to me to have the desired edecD'to
have them packed in casks as they are digging from
the ground and to have the casks when the potatoes
are piled in them, filled up with sand or earth, TAX
ing care that it is done as speedily possible and
that all spaces in the cask of potatoes are Sled up
with earth or sand the cask thus packed holds Az
many potatoes as it would were no earth or sand
used and as the air is totally excluded it cannot act
on the potatoes, and consequently no Fermentation
can take place.