The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1919-12-18

Y planted to tobacco in the territorytrlb-
utary to Blackshear next spring we
will undertake to see that suitable
modern tobacco warehouse is built
here in good time to care for and
market the tobacco.
Sweet potatoes, when of the prop
er quality and carefully graded ant!
cured. is crop that will always com
mand the ready cash. To get the most
out of sweet potatoes careful atten-
ton must be given to varieties, grad
ing and curing. The old fashioned
banking method must be supplented
lby modern potato curing house, be-
lcause potatoes cannot be successfully
cured except in a properly construct
ed and operated curing house. These
houses can be built of any desired
capacity and the cost depends upon
the size. The great advantage in cur
ing potatoes is found in the fact that
cured potatoes can be kept as long as
desired and thus put upon the market
when the demand is greatest and the
price is best. BY the old banking
method fully one-half the crop is per-
haps annually lost from rot. A pota-
to curing house would save that an
nual waste and put just that much
additional cash in the farmers pock-
ct. A potato cruing house should be
built upon the cooperative plan, and
we believe it is quite possible that the
profits of the first years operations
would more than pay back the whole
investment.
Peanuts is another crop that is
rapidly coming to the front as a
money crop in southern Georgia, and
ELSEWHERE, and there is no doubt they
would prove profitable here. In addi-
ton to being an excellent stock food
the peanut and its products are being
more and more extensively used for
human food, and desirable food pro-
ducts must always command ready
sale on the market. Besides this there
lis a decided advantage in growing
good acreage of peanuts because you
can always fatten your hogs on them
lif the price offered is unsatisfactory.
If sufficient acreage to justify it is
planted to peanuts in this immediate
section the local cotton seed oil mill
will afford a market for them. This
in turn would mean that you would
have an ample supply of peanut meal
available to your hand for stock feed
ing, and there is no better feed for
this purpose.
Sugar cane is an old crop that can
be converted into a profitable money
crop with careful attention. This
means, of course, that the cane must
be made into frst-class, heavy bodied
syrup. Because we have not in the
past given sufficient attention either
to the making or the grading of our
syrup large manipulating plants have
come into existence, where our syrup
lis taken and processed, that is, made
of uniform body, flavor and color and
then put upon the market in fancy
containers at a handsome profit to
the manipulators. There is no reason
why the farmer of community may
not get together in the matter OF
syrup production, and thus reap this
profit for themselves. The PROPOSE
ton can be handled upon co-opera-
tive plan and the investment need not
be heavy. The main thing is to pro-
duce the quality and character OF
syrup the market demands. If this is
done there is no reason why it might
not prove very profitable.
Corn can be made a profitable cash
crop if the proper attention is given
to it. The corn weevil and the rat
probably cause greater annual waste
than the boil weevil despite the fact
that it is entirely possible to free the
premises of both these pests. The
proper use of carbon disulphide in
correctly constructed barns will free
the corn of both the weevil and the
rat. Because it can be done it ought
to be done if for no other reason than
to reduce the number of acres actual
lly needed to be planted to corn to
meet all of the farm needs. Weevil
Infested corn is unmarketable and be-
sides it is unfit for human consump-
ton. Being rid of the weevil and the