The Jones County news. (Ellisville, Miss.) 1909-1924, 1913-10-02
SWEET POTATOES
MR.. JOE B. COUGH HAS SALE FOR
ALL OUR FARMERS GROW.

to Us. High Cost of Liv
ing Creates Great Demand
for Potatoes.
Mr.. Joe b. Cough, who is doing
such magnificent work TO promote
the trucking business in Jones county
and assist our farmers, last week
receiving "a letter from a thoroughly
reliable house at Dallas, Texas,
proposing to buy as many carloads
of sweet potatoes as our farmers will
snip them. This house offers to pay
80 cents per bushel delivered. The
freight charges from Ellsville TO
Dallas are As cents per 100 pounds.
Potatoes weigh So pounds to the
bushel. To insure delivery in first
class condition, it is bess to pack
in crates, ole bushel TO the crate.
Crates will cost 10 cents each. De-
Quoting all charges, this will net our
farmers so per cent bushel for their
sweet potatoes. Only the red vans
are wanted as that is the potatoe for
Texas.
Mr.. Cough says he win stand re-
sponsible for the reliability of the
house to which these potatoes will be
shipped, and farmers will receive
their money as soon as the good are
delivered.
There is 70 crop that our Jones
county farmers can grow so protitably
as the sweet potatoe, for they can be
raised with but little work and trouble,
and on average land, when the vines
are set out, will yield some2sl bushels
per acre. Col. Fridge insists that
sweet potatoes can be raised for
about six cents per bushel; but even
putting in the cost of making and
shipping at rs cents, here is net
profit of 100 per cent to the grower.
In other words with one or two
plowlngs = az grt return
of about S75 per acre from sweet
potatoes. What better thing does
he want? Does not this beat grow
ing boil weevil cottonP
Owing to the high price OF living
the demand for the sweet potato is
growing constantly and these tubors
as now consumed in all the large
cities of the country. And there is
no danger of overstocking the market,
for Dallas, Texas, firms will buy as
many car-loods of potatoes are as
shipped to them.
There was a report in Ellisville
that sweet potatoes we're last week
selling in Laurel for 60 cents per
bushel. a gentleman of our town
went there and investigated the story,
and found it mistake. Farmers
were shipping potatoes from Laurel
to commission men and hope to get
that price, but returns had not been
received. But when you ship to
Dallas, Texas, you know exactly what
you will receive and your money IS
sure to come. We advise those who
have sweet potatoes for sale to call |
and talk over the matter with MIR. |
Cough and then combine and ship at |
least one carload to Texas. They
will then see exactly what can be |
done. Texas is near at hand and |
it would be well for our Jones county |
farmers to capture this Texas pota-
toe market and hold it against all |
The finest sweet po-
tatoes in the world are grown here
and that there is steady market for
all that can be raised, there is no |
reason why Jones county farmers
should not all get rich and indepen-
dent. There is more clear money and
less work in one acre of potatoes
than in ten acres of cotton.
Mr.. Prof. Mckay, OF the A. & NJ.
College, proposed to handle a car
Dad of potatoes, ship the same and
return TO the farmers every cent he
received for them. This gentleman
lid not make this offer wit any
view to personal profit, but simply
% let our farmers know what they
IAN do with the potatoe as money
.rop. But he could not get over half
! carload promised and so the ship
nent was not made. The farmers
lad an idea that there was a catch