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and his son Jack demon FLEETWOOD IMARSTTAU strate the old method of srad Working Through Winter 1s Lot Of Potato Grower good number of us have assumed that all potato grow ers come winter can take oil or Florida or some like place and forget about arming until the following spring in plant ing time tow who ship their entire crop at flat rate to processing plants can but very large number of grow ers work possibly harder through the winter grading and packaging potatoes than they do through the summer grow ing them Typical of this type of grow ers are Fleetwood Marshall and his two married sous Jack and Charles who work togeth er on sharing the necessary and expensive machinery and in doing the work Chsrles arm is at Eaxter Fleetwoods and Jacks are on the 5th Siderood Essa 80000 BAGS 0f the 70000 75Apound bags oi potatoes they grew last year they sold only 30000 bugs in bulk to potato pro cessing plant Thc rest they put into storage in their stor age barn and the converted barn on Charles farm Inside oi the storage horn on the 5th Sideroad it is dark lmoist and smells pleasantly oi iresb earth and potatoes Light is kept at an absolute mum to prevent the potatoes sprouting The building is built into convenient bank with its root level with the top of the gro and The walls are thick Con state to stop the weight rarth staving them in Two heavy dividers constructed of closely spaced twobysix lum ber and built up to the high rooi like tall corral fences divides the building into three bins each having capacity of 6000 bags of potatoes Even though we did lot of the work on the building ourselves it cost over 30 cents for every bag it holds says Fleetwood it is 70 feet by 40 feet This is the tlrat crop we have put in here And ev en then we did not get time to finish it FEATURE One interesting feature of this building is the set of trenches ing potatoes on rodbottom ed sloped sorting table known two feet wide and over one tool deep that runs up the en tire lengths oi the bins like overiydeep gutters These are connected by another trench that runs along the north end All are covered with planks spaced an inch apart In the Iirst place these tren ches serve as ventilators Vhen the potatoes are brought in by the built carrying trucks damp from the iields and piled in huge deep piles they must be ventilated or they would soon rot highcapocity tan drives outside air down along the trenches and evenly back through the masses ot loose potatoes The second reason why we built these trenches was to in stall bin uniooders explains Fleetwood We didnt have time to fix them up last year But this year we hope to put con veyors down into those trench es The planks as you can see will keep the potatoes off of the conveyor belts until we take them out one by one all the way back to the end The principle is the same as that used when stoplogs are re moved one by one irom dam to let take water out of pond at controlled rate CONVEYDRS These trends conveyors he goes on will put them onto another elevator that will car ry them into the grading and packaging room we are going to build on the south end oi this building Then we Wont have to keep moving the grad ing equipment and we wont have to fork potatoes onto the grader By the end of this winter the Marshalls will have graded and bagged or packaged no less than 40000 seventy five pound bags of potatoes Quan titles of potatoes are Custom arliy reckoned in 75pound no its Using their mechanical grad er the Marshalls can grade and bag two 75pound bags at potatoes every minute helper forks potatoes from the storage bins onto the first grading rack that permits all small potatoes to tail through openings in the conveyor At are rolled over rows oi spaced in New Brunswick as hand ra right angles to this another set at rollers takes them across the grading table where Fleet wood removes blemished pain The good potatoes then mbber wheels laced with stubs by projections that resemble thick whiskers The big potatoes and some of them are big slide down chutes from the end rollers to bags on the side of the maC hine while the mediumsizcd potatoes toil through the rol lers down another chute and into bags at the end of the grader Jack tcnds the baggers which alternately lills first one bag on one side and when this bag is lull and belng ra plsced with an empty bag iills another bag on the other side of the chute It is con tinuous operation Meanwhile Charles quickly sews up the bags with big needle and jute string or with the titty or twentylive pound paper bags runs the tops through the electric bog sewer Big potatoes Jack says are bought largely for mak ing French fries Medium ones go to domestic markets like chain stores supermarkets and stores where they are bought largely by housewives But one peculiar type at pot ato the netted Kern shaped niorelike cucum than potato has skin relt sembling embedded netting hence its name and is rather highly esteemed in hotels for baking These potatoes 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