The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1915-09-09
COUNTY NEWS.
latersstlng letters from Different
Sections Of the County, Written
BY Oar Regular Cor.
respondents.


at Cold Springs plantation with hl
sister, Mrs. UndIne F. McCaIeb.
An unusual sight on the POI
Gibson and Burtonton road we
Transporting of twelve wagon load
of Nancy Hall yams for the Ne,
Orleans market to the Yazoo {
Mississippi Valley railroad station
last week. The sweet pOtatoe
were dug the day before. washe'
In water In the fields. plcced In
wagon to drain of. hauled to pack
Ing shed and when dry packed Il
three peck hampers. The littl
yams occupied the bottom OF th,
hamper, the bi6 ones the middle
and the medium sizes the top
There Is no grade In this package
bat this mixing of all gives a gooC
and compact pack. The hampel
of sweet potatoes weighs Al Poundl
(SS pounds Is the legal bushe
weight In Mississippi) and ths
hampers sell at the factory for s
cents q piece. These sweet pOta-
toes brought $r.2s per busbel and
IS cents freight {. 0. b. New Or
leans.
The red Nancy Hall Is the ear
Iiest yam that natures. and Its
market should be extended to the
east, north and west where the
sweet, sugary yam Is unknown.
No better patriotic service could be
given by the Mississippi boards of
trade than the establishment of
potato kitchens Ia the cities west
of the Ohio river and east Of the
Allegheny mountains to POPULAR
ize this southern product, and add
a nutritious staple food to the
northern dinner tables.
Hon. Percy E. Quin, NJ. c. from
the original boil weeviI district Of
MississiupI. dropped In to see
Charles Clark Smith of Insomre
plantation Tuesday.
Little Miss CordeIla Kenninston,
drughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. R. E.
Remington of Jackson. visited
Mrs. C. Smith of Insmore plan
ration.
T. ]. Lawrence has Joined the
ranks OF automobile owners. and
is sporting hts JOY rides on dirt
and gravel roads.
Synthetic milk from soy beans
Is an accomplished fact. A milk
manufacturing plant Is to be es-
tabIIshed Ia America to utilize soy
beans In making this milk which
cannot be differentiated from cows
milk in taste or color. Moreover,
cream and cheese. milk and butter
will be made from this leeume.
VermIcelli. biscuits and other food
stuffs are produced from the bean.
The oil Is valuable; It enters now
In the manufacture of soap. and as
cattle cakes cOmpstas with cotton
seed meal as feedstutfs and fertIl-
izer. Western requirements of
soy beans from China, Japan, Ko-
rea and ManchurIa amount to q
million tons a year. Hull, Eng-
land, Is the center Of the great oil
aud seed mills for this commuhity.
The import trade TO that port is an
extensive one. the freight on soy
beans amounting to 1900. 900
per annum. The horseless age Is
Is nigh and the cowIess age looms
up With sunfower butter (butter
from sunHower seed) and soy bean
milk. Soy beans Is the coming
staple crop for the Bayou Pierre
valley and Big Black river lands
of Claiborne county
Mrs. A. G. Smith. Insmore
plantation, gave an elegant supper
Thursday complimentary to Mrs.
Cornella F. Drexlsr of Rocky
Springs. Friends were present
from the north and south banks of
Big Bayou Pierre. or some would
say joined BY crossing the Oscar
Wilde bridge which means that
the people OF one side can visit the
people Of the other side and Vice
versa In social convention.
The agitation for . creamery
may be wise or unwlse. Before q
creamery plant Is thought Of : cor
population OF 10. aud 1000 gal