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The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1920-02-12
to capture the markets of the East

to capture the markets of the East
and all other sweet potato markets Of
the world. Now that the Southern
farmers have realized that there is no
limit to their market for this wonder
full food crop, they entering into po-
tato growing with new zest. They
are standardizing their best varieties
and steadily increasing acreage to
this crop. Furthermore, they are
learning the other very necessary
standards of commercial handling
that of grading their potatoes and
shipping in uniform and attractive
packages, such as one bushel ham,
pers and crates.
Perhaps the most forward step to-
ward the successful preparation OF
the Southern potato crop for a wider
commercial demand is in the use Of
the kiln-drying and storage process.
The sweet potato is a very perishable
product and unless it is put through
curing process, removing a large
per cent. of the moisture content, it
is unfit for food within very short
period of time. For this reason only
small per cent of the earliest grown
varieties in the most southerly dis
tricts could reach the northern mar
kets in a good and satisfactory state
of preservation until curing pro-
cess was perfected by which the tu-
bers could be made immune from
climatic conditions. Even in the heart
of the South with the ordinary crude
manner of banking" the potatoes in
bitches or pits, or storing them in
cellars, as has been the custom for
generations of time, from 20 to 100
per cent. of the crop would be lost by
decomposition. Only small portion
of the crop reaches the local markets
later than three months after harvest
and very few farmers keep suffi-
cient quantity for home consumption
past the date of mid-winter. Not un-
til the introduction of properly con-
structed potato-curing houses was it
possible to conserve the crop and
meet the demand of an increasing
Eastern and Western market for
Southern sweets, throughout the mid
winter and early spring seasons.
The storage system has solved the
problem of sweet potato marketing in
the South. This curing process abso-
lutely saves from 80 to 95 per cent.
of the marketable or graded potatoes.
The construction of these storage
houses, where the plans of the United
States Department of agriculture are
followed in every detail, guarantees
uniformity Of. temperature and
humidity necessary to the proper cur
ing of the sweet potato. The time re-
quired to cure the tuber is from ten
days to two weeks; and they are usu-
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1920-02-12
South Captures The Sweet Potato
Market.

G. A. Caldwell, Agricultural and In
dustrial Agent, Atlantic Coast Line
Railroad, Wilmington, N. c., sent the
following to The County Record:
Recent estimates tend to show a
decrease in recent years Of acreage
in New Jersey. The South is organic
ing to capture all Eastern markets
with standard grades for sweet pota-
toes and yams."
The above significant statement is
found in recent news letter issued
by the bureau of markets, New Jer-
sey State department of agriculture,
in commenting upon the sweet pota-
to crop of that State. The reason for
the reduction of potato acreage in
New Jersey is a real and pertinent
one. It is true that "the South is or
ganizing to capture all Eastern mar
kets:," with its "candied yams" or
sugar spuds;" in fact, it has already
captured big trade in the East and
Central West. The popularity of the
Southern sweets is broadening and
the market possibilities Of this splen-
did product are yet without limit.
Alabama early potatoes were shipped
as far north as Winnipeg, Canada,
this summer and hundreds Of cars
were shipped to Chicago, st. Louis,
Cincinnati, and other centers of coun-
try.
Is. it any wonder, then, that the
prudent potato growers of the Jersey
coast are "evacuating" in the face of
sucn competition and giving their at
tention to other crops? The superior
ity of the Southern sweet potato over
the Eastern grown varieties is recog-
niaed in all sections Of the country.
1t is much sweeter and richer in flav-
or and nutriment. There is something
seductive about this choice tuber ma
tive of the sandy soils of the South
land-it's real food, just like its next
of kin, the white or Irish potato, and
the time is fast approaching when
it will rank next as the universal
dish"
Another potent reason why the
Eastern growers are retiring from
the sweet potato game is that they
are not favored with the soil and
climatic advantages in competition
with the South. It costs them vastly
more per acre to grow and market
the crop. 1t is perhaps the most
cheaply cultivated crop of the South.
1t is nothing unusual for ordinary
poor lands to produce from 200 to 400
bushels per acre.
Yes. indeed, the South is coming
great tuber crop, and is organizing"
into its own in commercializing its
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he had "hopped off" on a 2,000-mile
flight in the interest of army enlist
ments. He landed at Hazelburst Field,
Long Island, but will start again to-
morrow, it was announced tonight.
Sergt. Joseph P. SAKE, and army pho
tographer, will accompany Lieut.. May
nard. They will drop army recruiting
literature from the De Haland four
plane in which they will fly. Washing
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ally found to be very sweet and firm.
After thorough curing they can be
shipped any reasonable distance and
are found to be in fine conditions.
Cured potatoes were shipped from
Alabama to Honolulu, Hawaiian
Islands, a distance of three thousand
miles by rail and two thousand miles
by boat, requiring nearly month in
transit, and were found in perfectly
sound condition, and were bedded for
plants with excellent results. The
Triumph, Nancy Hall and Porto Rico
each with a capacity of 10000 to
are the standard varieties for curing.
Curing houses are going up rapid
ly in the leading sweet potato states
of Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Mis-
sissippi and Texas. Hundreds of in
dividual growers in these states have
erected small plants to store their re-
spective crops, the capacity ranging
from 500 to 5000 bushels. In nearly
every instance these growers have
saved the initial cost of building and
maintaining their storage houses the
first year, and in some cases they
have realized a handsome return over
and above the cost. The community
plant is also becoming a big industry.
Houses of 10000 to 100000 bushel
capasity have been erected in some
sections. A chain of storage houses,
10000 bushels capacity, erected as
convenient railway stations, within a
radius of ten to twenty miles is oper-
ated under one management. This
community plan enables the farmer
to market his crop when it is harvest
ed, or if he desires he can store his
crop for later market. Another ad-
vantage of the community plant is
that it handles sufficient quantities to
attract the car load buyers. These
buyers representing the large dealers
of the leading markets of the East
and West, are on the ground often
enough to make competition keen.
Ala, Market Journal and Crop Report
For several years we have consis-
tently urged farmers, bankers and
business men of Virginia and the
Carolinas to overcome the enormous
loss incidental to improper methods
of handling and storing the sweet-po-
tato crop; and in some sections curing
and storage houses have been built
and operated at considerable profit;
as evinced by the statement appended.
But, as a general proposition the
farmers are following the out-of-date,
expensive banking method which
causes loss of from 25 to 80 per-
cent. and often-times a heavier loss
of the tubers produced at the cost of
much time, labor and money. :
Statistics on four acres sweet pota-
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To the Doctor

The following is the qualitative for
mula for Eucapine Salve. The luanti-
tative formula will BE- sent you together
with full sized jar of the salve on
receipt of yOm-request. II You have
not already proven the great value Q,
this formula in your practice. you viii
n" greatly pleased with results wh'n
uSedsas an inhalant in steam ra3Or q
when applied in throat and d'nostrils ari
wherever directly applied to any in
famed surface. 1t is antiseptic. anal
gesic and antiphlogistic and only
slightly rubefacient.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1920-02-12
H You Take Flu

nv careless exposure and failure to
properly sterilize the air passages|the
doctor Should De called Immediately.
IF neither doctor nor nurse are to be
had take a good purgative. Reduce
the aching and fever by taking Aspi-
tone e. tablets every hour till the
fever is mastered. Rub the throat and
chest with Eucapine. Fill the nostrils
and sniff it lck into Che throat: Put
some Eucapinc on the back of the
tongue. Swallowing little. no larger
than pea. will do good rather than
harm. Place u tcasyoonful in q coffee
pot with water. bring to boil and Inv
aale the steam th1ugh a pasteboard
funnel Keep up this treatment per-
sistently till the Goctor arrives. Many
physicians will continue Just this treat-
ment and nothing more. Weakness and
heart depression are characteristic Of
Influenza. Plain Aspirin is slightly
heart dcprcssant. For that reason
ASpitOne should be used as II does not
depress the heart, containing with
Aspirin a safe. slight heart exhilarant
to counteract the slightly depressing eff
feet of the Aspirin.
Your druggist can supply Aspitone
tablets, 35c the box. and Eucapine
Salve SOC the jar. II your druggist
does not keep it order by mail from the
manufacturers
Eucapine. Salve is indicated il
skin and is therefore useful in trea
sores, burns, bruises, insect bites, $
of the air passages and as curatiy
emily used, entirely dependable. Ma
The Piedmont L;
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T0 AVOID INFLUENZA
USE EUcAPInE SALvr

have M
ngpida it is
ssch
OlSE Eucalyptus
epidemic This sterilization
Euc Of
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1920-02-12
FLYING PARSON' OFF AGAIN
Starts On 2,000-Mile Flight Into
Southern States

New York, Feb. 9.-Defective motor
ignition compelled Lieut.. Belvin w.
Maynard, the flying parson," to make
forced landing one mile from
Mitchell Field, Mineola, today after
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1920-02-12

Rub-My-Tism is a powerful an
tiseptic; it kills poison caused !
from infected cuts, cures or
sores, letter, etc.
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ton, D. c., will be the first stop in the
itinerary which will take the ayiators
into nearly every Southern State.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1920-02-12

Last year during the Influenza epi-
demic, we were overwhelmed vita fusb
orders for Eucapine to3fhe degree.tna,
We were utterly unable to I'LL Ill order
and many had to be cancelled from sur
sEccr inability to. manufacture Euca-
linc Salve fast enough. This year,
owing to our cxtensive:advertising cam
paign the normal business is much
larger and we may again De unable to
supply the full demand. a
If your stock is. loy, order at once
to avoid the possibility Of shortage on
rush orders. There is no ianger IN
stocking literally to meet emergencies
as the rapidly growing popularity ~
Eucapine Salve assures steady and
constantly increasing demand.
If yon have failed to stock It thus.
far, order from your jobber at once.
There is no other salve which exactly
fills the field Of Eucapine. 10 substi-
tute is to DO an injustice to your cus-
toners. Eucapine does not blister the I
nostrils or the tender skin of AM in
fant's chest, but its curative qualities
in inHammatory conditions are unex.
celled. q
mes of the air passages and Of the
sore throat, coughs, colds, eatarrh,
feet. AS a preventative Of infection
rs it is, when properly and persist
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Useful Recipes

at the highest prices.
In the experiments conducted on
the Government poultry farm, pens of
pullets on free range were fed a mash
of corn meal, bran, and middlings and
a scratch mixture of wheat, oats ana
corn. This is a greater variety of
grains than is used by many farmers.
In addition the birds had absolutely
free range on land where bugs, green
feed, and worms were plentiful. Other
pens were given the same ration, with
l pound of commercial scrap added to
every four pounds of mash
The pullets without the meat scrap
laid only 80 eggs apiece (Which is
more eggs per hen than the average
farm flock lays), while those receiv-
ing meat scrap average from 1875 to
$50 eggs apiece.
Meat scrap is not produced on most
farms and has to be bought at
higher price than grain. 1t produces
eggs, though several cents dozen
cheaper than where no meat scrap Is
used. Milk products or fish give as
good results as meat in increasing
egg production,
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-18
DiverSificatiOn of
Crops in the South

A tendency toward increased diver
sifcation of crops in the South is OBJ
served in an analysis Of acreage fig
ures for the past ten years, recently
made by the Bureau of Crop Esti-
mates, United States Department OF
Agriculture. In ten States, which
grow more than IS per cent of the
cotton crop of the United States, only
364 per cent of their total reported
crop area was In cotton last year,
whereas the average for the past five
years was 38.5 per cent; and for the
FIVE years before that (1910-191Q, 44.5
per cent. Last year corn and cotton
combined comprised 74.4 per cent of
the total reported crop acreage, which
compared with IT'S per cent, the aver
age for the past five years, and S5.4
per cent for the preceding five years.
In other words, miscellaneous crops
increased from 14.6 per cent of the
total reported crop acreage in the five
years 1910-1914 to 22.4 per cent in the
past five years and 25.6 per cent last
year.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-18

the star of such appropriations as
1.-THE Heart of Humanity" and "The
Right to Happiness" finds sanctuary
from the arduous work Of the day
before the camera by going back over
the road to yesterday with the cid
masters.
Among the works of the great
Scotchman, Miss Phillips particularly
likes "Sartors Resartus" and "The
French Revolution"
Although her preference is for Car
lysle, Miss Phillips also likes the work
of Dickens, in particular the delightful
"Pickwick Papers" and the unfinished
"Barnaby Rudge."
1.-THE reading of good books is like
stocking an engine with fuel" she says.
UNLESS one constantly replenishes
the mind with new fuel in the form of
literature the mental engine slows
down and eventually burns itself out.
People who think the same thoughts
constantly are very tiresome."
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-18
New Peach Grader
Attracts Attention

Peach growers are displaying keer
interest in the new peach-sizing de
vice perfected by the Bureau of Mar
kets, United States Department of
Agriculture. Applications for pub
lie patent covering the sizer has been
granted by the Patent Office, and
many requests for drawings have been
received.
The machines will be used in the
peach belt during the coming season.
The performance of the sizer will be
carefully watched by peach growers
and manufacturers generally, and if
the device proves to be all that is
claimed for 1t the next peach season
will doubtless find large number Of
the machines in practical operation.
The object sought by the use of the
machine is to handle fruit more efil-
GENTLY than heretofore and at lower
cost. The overall dimensions of the
machine are "a by Is feet and with
from 10 to Is packers working at one
time, each machine permits run of
from to carloads of peaches day.
The device can be operated by an
electric motor of less than 1 horse.
power capacity or by a small gas en-
CINE, and can be run at half capacity,
if desired. According to estimates Of
the designers, the machine should sell
commercially at not more than $3.50
1t is thought that, in addition to
sizing peaches the machine has posi-.
bilities for grading fruits such as
apples, pears and oranges. The de-
vice now is being tested for grading
sweet potatoes.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-18
Use Pure Salt
In Curing Hides

Hides should be sailed only with
clean pure salt free from alum, ac-
cording to a recent statement of the
Bureau of Chemistry, United States
Department of Agriculture. This
bureau is making a study of the best
methods for skinning farm animals
and curing hides in order to produce
a high-grade leather. Salt containing
alum partly tans the hide and sets the
hair so that it cannot be removed.
Hides which cannot be unhaired bring
loss to the tanner and prejudice him
in further purchases against sides
from the same source.
Tanners recently submitted to the
Bureau of Chemistry green sailed
hides which could not be unhaired
after lining in the usual way, in or
der to find out the cause. An exam
| nation showed that on the basis Of
the dry hide unhaired spots contained
0.8 per cent hide of alumina and the
portions where the hair was not
loosened contained 1.25 per cent OF
alumina. The portions of the hide
which contain 08 per cent, alumina
unhaired with difficulty, while the
portions containing 1.25 per cent could
not be unhaired even on the beam
An inferior salt containing alum had
been used in sailing the hides and had
set the hair.
This incident illustrates the impor
lance of attention to details in the
handling and curing of hides and
skins. Farmers, country butchers, and
dealers are advised by the department
to use only clean, pure salt in hides
The presence of alum in salt is especl
ally Objectionable and as little as 5 PEI
cent in the salt can be detected usu
ally by it's astringent, bitter taste.
Farmers Bulletin 1855, which give:
detailed directions for skinning, cur
ing and marketing country hides an
skins may be obtained upon applica
ton to the United States Department
of Agriculture, Washingto, d. c.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-18

tendance as they now have. The men
are indulging in gymnastic sports,
says Mr. Mylan, In greater numbers
than at any previous time, according
to all records.
1t is expected that the number of
indoor and outdoor athletic fields will
be enormously increased as the need
for them becomes more apparent.
Rich men will install facilities in
homes. Less wealthy men will go to
athletic clubs and public gymnasiums.
And hotels and even apartment
houses will endeavor to install them
for the benefit of those living in the
building. The Allerton House, 4
hotel for men, has been among the
first to recognize the American mans
inherent love of sport and has in
stalled a gymnasium fully equipped
and under the supervision of Prof.
The success Of the plan, evi
dent from the start, points to the fact
that gymnasiums will be so numerous
that the majority of men will exercise
in them daily At the Allerton House,
where there is no extra charge for
gym, the men take anywhere from a
few minutes to few hours daily ex-
ercise.
Lack of drink, or, to be exact, lack
Of cornwall occupation, has suddenly
left great deal of time at the dis
posal of men who gathered at clubs
after work in the evenings. They
have discovered, numbers of them,
hat greater stimulation and greater
mental relaxation are to be had in
gymnasiums than at the bar, and the
time that went to the 80 cup is now
devoted to swinging on the horizontal
bars.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-18
Bows of Yew for
Modern ArcherS

1t is far cry from long-range
the bow and arrow of the American
Indian Nevertheless, bows and ar
rows are still used by the small boy,
albeit not without sorrow to the
neighbours chickens. There is alo 2
demand for stronger and more ex-
pensive bows for archers of mature
years. Doubtless this fact accounts
for recent sale, on the Enoqualmie
National Forest in Washington of
quantity of yew, to be used in making
bows. Although the Forest Service
Of the United States Department of
Agriculture sells a variety of forest
products for unusual uses, this is
probably the first case in which the
final product is to be one of the Oldest
and most common weapons known TO
the world.
the best of all bow woods. Famous
English archers would have no other
Richard III ordered bowyers to make
four bows of witch-hazel, ash or elm
to every one of yew, in order that
the supply of this valued wood might
be preserved. This is said to be one
of the earliest forest regulations in
England. The slaves from which
bows were made in those early days
were seasoned for three years be-
fore being made into bows and the
bows were not used for two years
after being completed
The American yew is botanically
very similar to the European yew.
One of the three species found in the
United States grows only in Florida
and is a small tree. Another is a
shrub growing in the north Atlantic
region while the third occurs in the
forests of the Pacific coast 1t is the
latter that grows in the Snoqualmie
National Forests. When mature it US
ually is from 20 to 80 feet high and
from to II inches in diameter.
On account of it's elasticity and
strength the Indians of the Northwest
utilized the wood of the yew for their
bows and often for canoe paddles.
Yew wood is also well adapted to cary
| ing and numerous attractive articles
can be made from it. Not only does
the grain of the wood make it possible
to carve attractive designs, but the
combination of red bark, white SAP
wood, and rose-red heartwood make
especially pleasing effects possible,
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-18
lack Frost Raids Peaches

1t is said that the law of com
pensation works both ways-if the
rich man gets his ice in the summer,
the poor man gets his share of the
winter. Averages of peach production
appear to follow the same rule, &C
cording to the estimates just pub.
lished by the Bureau of Crop Esti-
mates. United States Department OF
Agriculture.
Barring the possibilities of further
disaster, the commercial peach Or
chards of Georgia and North and
South Carolina will produce fairly
heavy crops. California is scheduled
for a bumper crop, and several other
States will not be far below their
1919 average in car-lot shipments of
peaches, but these good prospects are
more than offset by the frost dam
age inflicted upon the orchards in
other States. Texas has been badly
hurt, and so, also, have the Arkansas,
Oklahoma, Missouri, anu Tennessee
orchards. The New England crop Is
reported ruined, and Washington.
Utah and Idaho report severe winter
killing. TO some extent the prospec.
tive crop is still further diminished
by the decrease in acreage devoted
to commercial peach orchards.
Altogether the Bureau of Crop Esti-
mates figures the conditions on Aprd
/, 1920, to be about II per cent Of
normal. There is slight decrease
from this figure during the growing
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-18
Gymnasium as a
Liquor Substitute

What is the average moderate
mans substitute for drink? Granted
that the average supernormal and
subnormal man needs some artificial
stimulus beyond walking Sunday, and
his family and friends to make his
leisure happy, has he taken to drugs
or anything else detrimental to his
health or well being? Apparently he
has found his substitute in athletics,
for, according to the testimony Of
Prof George L. Meylan, physical di-
rector of the Allerton House, gymna-
Sums have never had as large an at