The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1919-11-20

ing houses are not necessarily expen-
sive For instance, curing house
sixteen feet square, which would be
amply large to care for five acres of
tobacco, can be built at cost of $3.50.
to 5000. A house eighteen feet square,
which would be large enough to care
for seven acres of tobacco, would cost
proportionately more. If you decide
to try tobacco for 4 money crop it is
essential that YOU first interest your
neighbors in the project so that az
rangements can be made to secure
the necessary expert advice. If tobac-
co looks good to you we cannot too
strongly recommend that you arrange
to visit the Nichols and Douglas sec
tions and find out for yourself more
about the trouble and the profit of
tobacco growing. You can make the
trip by AUTOMOBILE in day, and II
it is made it may easily prove to be
the most profitable trip you ever
made. If you have any thought of 60
ing in for tobacco as a money crop we
very strongly urge prompt action so
there NAV be plenty of time to make
all necessary arrangements before
time to plant. We wish to add that II
as many as two thousand acres are
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 and
cured, is a crop that will always COM
mand the ready cash. To get the most
out of sweet potatoes careful atten-
tion must be given to varieties, grad
ing and curing. The old fashioned
banking method must be supplented.
by a modern potato curing house, be-
cause 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 marked
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 thai is
rapidly coming to the front as
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
is a decided advantage in growing a
good acreage of peanuts because you
can always fatten your hogs on them
if 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 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
is taken and processed, that is, made
of uniform body, flavor and color and
then put upon the market in fancy
containers at handsome profit to
the manipulators. There is no reason
why the farmer of a community may
not get together in the matter OF
syrup production, and thus reap this
profit for themselves. The PROPOSE