The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1919-11-19

necessary arrangements before time to
plant. We wish to ad dthat if as many
as two thousand acres are planted to
tobacco in the territory tributary to
Blackshear next spring we will under
take to see that suitable modern to-
bacco warehouse is built here in good
time to care for and market the crop.
Sweet potatoes, when of the proper
quality and carefully graded and cur
ed, is crop that will always COM
mand the ready cash. 10 get the most
| out of sweet potatoes careful atten-
tlon must be given to varieties, grad
ing and curing: The old fashioned
banking method must be supplement-
ed by a modern potato curing house,
! because potatoes cannoS be success
| fully cured except in properly con-
structcd and operated curing house.
These houses can be built of any de-
| sired capacity and the cost depends up
| on the size. The great advantage in
| curing 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 perhaps annually lost, from
rot. A potato curing house would
save that annual waste and put just
that much additional cash in the far
mcr's pocket. A potato curing house
should be built upon the cooperative
plan, and we believe it is quite pos
siblc that the profits Of the first
years operations would more than pay
back the whole investment
Peanuts is another crop that is
rapidly to the front as money crop
in southern Georgia, and elsewhere,
and there is no doubt they would
prove profitable here. In addition to
being an excellent stock food the pea
nut and it's products are being more
and more extensively used for human
food, and desirable food products
must always command ready sale
or the market. Besides this there is
Il decided advantage in growing a
good acreage of peanuts because you
can always fatten your hogs on them
j fthe 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 mark ct 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 better feed for
this purpose.
Sugar cane is an old crop that can
he converted into profitable money
crop with careful attention This
means, Of course, that the cane must
bo made into first-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
is. taken and proceeded, that is. made
of uniform body, flavor and color and
then put upon the market in fancy
timers at handsome profit to the
. atloulators. There IS no reason
7 "ty the farmers Of community NAV
'."t get together in the matter Of
! 7,ruo production, and thus reap this
"ro't for Themselves. rhe PROPOSE
tl2H can be handled upon co-opera-
tive plan and the investment need not
." heavy. The main thing is to pro-
dnec the quality and character Of
frHop the market demands. If this Is