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Hand-sorting Potatoes.

WHEN hand - sorting potatoes, especially the seed, some growers use a grading-table to simplify the work A simple type in use is one fitted with a hopper or wooden box at one end and built to a size suitable for holding a quantity of the potatoes to be sorted. From there the potatoes pass out on to an apron, made on the principal of a

narrow binder canvas. This apron travels on wooden rollers, and is moved forward as required by turning a handle fitted to one end of the outer roller, the potatoes being picked off by hand and placed in sacks hooked along one side of the table frame ' .''' ' - ' A rather more elaborate machine than the one mentioned above is in use in the

Annat district. This is electrically driven, The grading-table is brought forward by power, which can be conveniently shut off by the operator hen the supply of , , ■ t j • • f potat °® s CO “ mg fo ™ dls “ xcess of what the pickers can handle satisfactorily, ‘

J. G. McKay,

Fields Instructor,

Christchurch.

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New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 57, Issue 6, 20 December 1938, Page 537

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Hand-sorting Potatoes. New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 57, Issue 6, 20 December 1938, Page 537

Hand-sorting Potatoes. New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 57, Issue 6, 20 December 1938, Page 537

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