Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-06-14

canned sweet potatoes. One bushel of
sweet potatoes is sufficient for Is cans.
Last year at Cheraw, S. c., canning
factory was established for the pur
pose of canning sweet potatoes and
vans; it has capacity of 400 cases, or
5000 No. cans per day; its profits
were such that it expects to double it,
capacity this year. Like the utiliZa-
ton of cottonseed oil mills for pressing
oil from peanuts and soy beans, sweet
potatoes are canned after the most of
the fruits and vegetables have passed
out of season and the canning season
thus heightened.
Sweet potatoes make good -four. 1t
is mixed with wheat -four and produc-
es fine pastries and cakes. A flour
made from the Irish potato. mixed with
hCdl IOuA 10 0OCO All 1udhIuS luC
German war bread" but it has less
nutriment, less sugar and the taste
does not compare with the -four from
the sweet potato, which is attractive.
The Department of Agricultura says
it is possible that the sweet potatJ
will become one of the chief sources of
alcohol in the United States. Expert
ments have shown that 1900 pounds
of sweet potatoes can be grown on one
acre. 1t may be fairly stated in
general way that one bushel of sweet
potatoes will yield one gallon of in
dustrial alcohol. In most of the eight
Southern States mentioned the manu-
facture and sale of alcoholic liquors
have been prohibited by law, and some
distilleries and breweries are idle.
Such plants could be utilized for the
manufacture of denatured alcohol AMI
other by-products of the sweet po-
tato.
In Maine, especially throughout the
Aroonstook potato regions, the Gull,
damaged and lower grades of Irish po
tatoes are converted into starch in To-
cal starch factories. The average
starch content of the Maine Irish pota-
to is 1929 per cent. The percentage
of starch in the sweet potato is greater
than in the white Irish potato. In all
cases over 90 per cent. of starch was
obtained from South Carolina sweet po-
tatoes and in one instance as high as
"a per cent. One acre has produced
$500 pounds of starch.
The value of the sweet potato as a
cattle food is not generally under
stood. Three bushels of sweet potatoes
are nearly equal to one bushel of corn
| IL feed value One-half pound of cot
tonseed meal, or one pound of soy
beans for each ten pounds of sweet po-
tatoes supplies the deficiency in pro
tein.
Cottonseed meal is produced in Jack
sonville, Fla, and ground velvet beans.
soy beans and cowpeas are manufactur-
ed at Gainesville, Fla, and other
points in the South.
| For manufacture into commercial
| feed the sweet potato would be thor
oughly dried, ground and mixed with
the other ground feeds mentioned.
There seems to have been little in
vestigation into the utilization of the
sugars contained in the sweet potato,
but if it should be ascertained that
these sugars possibly in the form O:
glucose to be used with our can sy-
rups in the manufacture of table sy-
rups or in some other form could be
profitably recovered, it should mean
much to the South. and might give us
some of the agricultural wealth which,
has accrued to the agriculturalist in
the su ar-beet territory of the West
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