Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-13
COUNTY AGENT SEES
POTATO DEMAND

r That Georgia grown sweet pota-
toes, properly cured and shipped,
will find a ready market in the
states of the middle west, is the
opinion Of H, w. Bingham, county
agent Of Washington county. Mr..
Bingham was in the Offices of the
Georgia Farm Bureau Thursday, en-
= route to Washington county, after a
vacation of seventeen days, spent
touring through Illinois, Ohio and In
diana.
j. During that time Mr.. Bingham says
:. he conducted an inquiry as to how
Georgia sweet potatoes were liked
in these states. He says that wher-
ever he went he found that every
body seemed to like the sweet pota-
toes when they could get them
properly cured.
!, three states I visited" said Mr.
Bingham, and found that with the
exception of about twenty, none OF
!, them used more than a bushel Of
wasn't because these restaurant own
ers didn't want to serve. them, or
. because their patrons would not eat
them. 1t was because they could not
get them throughout the year.
"They all said sweet potatoes were
good stuff when I asked them how
they liked them, and that they want
ed more, provided they reached them
in good condition. They don't want
rotten or frost-bitten.. potatoes, but
they want good ones"
Mr.. Bingham said he found anoth-
err reason why sweet potatoes were
not popular was mainly because peo-
pie throughout the middle west did
not know about them, how to. pre-
the epo Or e od tafg ro our Georg
sweet potatoes" he continued. "Ad-
vertising will maket Georgia sweet
potatoes, and once they get marketed,
properly, there will always be pig
ger demand for them than the state
Bureau Forms Exchange
Mr.. Bingham said that in Wash
ington county, the Washington Coun-
ty Farm Bureau had signed up to-
tai of $1,000 bushels of sweet :pota-
toes, which would be marketed
through the sweet potato division OF
the Georgia Farm Bureau Marketing
Exchange. This county exchange,
according to state farm bureau OIL
Gals, is the first completed. unit In
the sweet potato organization; put
that many more were now being
formed and would affiliate with the
I'm our county" Mr.. Bingham con,
tinued, I'VE have agreed to spend
cents perDuSne1 on duNeIl4SlAS e14Ao
about the first or middle of Sep
TENDER we will send two women dem
onstrators to the middle west to ad-
vertise Georgia sweet potatoes. We
are going ahead with this advertis-
ing campaign, even though the other
counties do not. We want to tell
the world of the value of sweet po-
tatoes."
Mr.. Bingham said the only certain
way to cure potatoes so that they
might be stored anG. Kept in good
condition indefinitely, was by the
kiln-drying method. He said that
this had been proven successful, and
that a recent big shipment Of kiln
dried sweet potatoes were sent from
Georgia to London, England, arr1V-
ing there in perfect condition.
He said in Washington county, the
farm bureau had two sweet potato
curing and storing. houses, and had
leased two more, so that every sweet
potato raised could be properly cured
and stored.
"Sweet potatoes offer a big oppor:..
tunity to the farmers of Georgia"
Mr.. Bingham said, land in Washing
ton county we are beginning to real
ize it, and are going ahead with
plans for cashing in on them"