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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1978
Page
5
Potatoes should be dug when tops die or tubers are large. Dig in dry soil using a potato fork or alternative tools. Clean tubers need curing for a week at room temperature and high humidity to heal skin and small cracks. Keep in darkness to prevent greening.
After harvest potatoes should be stored cool and dark to stay dormant for about two months. Ideal temps are 40 to 45 degrees with 85 to 90 percent humidity in a root cellar or basement. Outdoor heat makes this hard. avoid 80 degrees or higher. Low temp storage and hand desprouting are the main options. no home remedies exist to extend dormancy.
Paul Duesterhaus farms 77 acres on Long Island in the Mississippi River under a U S Fish and Wildlife lease. He grows corn soybeans grain sorghum and buckwheat amid flood risk pests and late seasons. Despite dangers he loves island life finds it relaxing and challenging as wildlife thrives around his fields.
Roger Menees of Anna and Bob Carls of Stonington joined the American Agricultural Movement tent at the Illinois State Fair. Both have spoken during the early tumultuous days of the group, which was not really an organization, as they discussed the farm economy and the movement's future with reporter Mike Carr Lindsay-Schaub.
Washington AP reports a 12 percent drop in the hired farm labor force from the mid 1960s to the mid 1970s, driven largely by a 50 percent fall in Black workers. by 1976 about 2.8 million workers remained, with young workers under 25 dominating and women at about 26 percent.
Nine alfalfa farmers asked Wal la Walla County commissioners to post bee crossing signs to slow traffic and protect alkali bees they say pollinate alfalfa. Spokesman Charlies Saranto urged 20 mph limits on nearby roads to reduce bee deaths and economic losses from each crushed bee worth about a dollar.
Carmen Potter, a Barrow breeder, raises 600 pure bred Duroc hogs and often wins the grand championship at the Illinois State Fair. He notes a shift in hog builds over 30 years from fatter hogs bred for lard to leaner animals with shorter fat, longer bodies, and larger carcass side lengths.
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