Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1921-08-13
VALUE OF THE SWEET
POTATO CURING PLANT

3 From ,Jri,.. communities ,hrou.h
IS "p the South data ba. h,.o .aa,.u
ii 10y the United State, Department ..
q Agriculture, EuI,ou of Markets. r.a
h tive to the c'..rrnr, of the ro,a,
D curing house. In Il accent auu..m,,
s. mcat it Is stated tIat be- 0r., car 60,
b sweet potatoes shipped from the potato
q plant of the Farmers Potato Cmlue
h Company, lIcmr.tcad County, Arhau~a.
0 brought $50 per bu~hcl. y, d,sgm.
\ time these same farmers had they sold
then could only have gotten 10 to Ga
2 cents. When these potatoy, were load
z ed out of the curing house few weeks
z ago into the car for shipment il was
! found that les, than per cent were
damaged; again establishing the very
! great value of the discovery of the
q potato house itself.
In Jefferson county, Georgia, So this
same news statement announces. soc
!. bushels of cured sweet potatoes were
: shipped to Louisville, Kentucky, bring
. my $l.37'2 per bushcl crate. Les, than
. l per cent of this lot showed damage.
In Lcnoir county, North Carolina, a
couple Of these houses wcr" opened up
recently, one with 500 bushels and the
other with 500. The loss IN the case Of
i each was less than l per cent.
In Louisiana, st. Landry Parish, loo
bushels of cured potatoes that hal gone
through the same process a. the ear
/ above were shipped ont at $3.50 per
barrel Another man in that same com
munity had JAILED to provide himself
, with = curing house, thinking mdoubt-
cdly that he could get along without il
, and do just as well, but up 20 the time
the news statement was sent out ne
had been unable to get an offer of even
as much as $500 per barrel. he inst
man remarked after he had made the
! sale Of the 100 bushels, emo more cot
! ton fer me -, and while the Washington
statement doesn't say so we have n
notion that the second man would rs.
press himself about like this, "a sweet
potato curing house FOR me-" He is
uhqncstionably convinced Of its value
now.
Over in Allcndalc county, South car
olina, a county agent SAYS that cured
potatoes nave been furnished to the My
hotels all through the fail and winter
with absolute satisfaction.
With these instances of success gath
cred from the four corners of the South,
backed up by hundreds Of others, We
are brought more clearly than ever be-
fore to see the urgent necessity for
erecting a sufficient number Of houses
TO take care of the entire sweet potato
crop. Sweet potatoes arc ncvor worth
u big price in the fall, and "a, business
has not been profitable in The past be.
cause no effective curing hoH.c had been
found; but safe system has been
found now and there Is no necessity
whatever for pushing potatoes to the
market in the fall when everybody has
potatoes and there is not much Of
market
Right straight through the late win
ter and spring cured sweet potatoes
have brought prices sufficiently above ,
Irish potatoes to make that ancient AMI
honorable product jealous to the heart I
People outside Of the South are be
ginning 10 lenrn the food value of sweet /
potatoes, which is greater than tla,. Ut !
Irish potatoes; how to prcpsr" them for ,
the table and how delicious the South
ern swee, potato is when it is cooked |