Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-10-27
make MANY POTATOES
Potato Growers Of Hickory Grove
Have Excellent Storage House.
SYRUP INDUSTRY STEADILY GROWING
North and South Carolina People Eat
MoIasses Made In Hickory Grove
Fine Breeding Hogs of Tennessee
May Be Shipped In This Winter
Other News Notes of the Town Near
Broad River.
(By a Staff Correspondent.)

Other News Notes of the Town Near
Broad River.
(By a Staff Correspondent
Hickory Grove October 27.-Mem-
bers of the Hickory Grove Sweet Pota-
to Growers association are enthusiasts
tic over the prospects Of a profitable
sale of their product this winter and
next spring. The association here,
which was organized early in the year,
has about forty members and all told
they have more than 100 acres in po-
tatoes. While the crop, because of un-
favorable seasons for potatoes, Is not
| going to turn out the volume that had
been hoped for, still the potatoes are
Of fine quality and there is no question
of the fact that Hickory Grove farm
ers are going to produce more potatoes
this fall than they have ever done be-
fore, lat.
About $500 Bushels.
A potato storage house which has
just been completed at a cost of $4,000
is now ready for storage purposes.
The house has a storage capacity Of
$500 bushels and the association men,
bers estimate that they are going to
make about $500 bushels this fall.
Many farmers who are not members Of
the association will get good yields OF
| potatoes this fall and an arrangement
| haS haap made wberehv tbav ara going
to get the advantage Of the storage
house as we'll as the association MEM
bers. The potato storage warehouse
was built with the profits derived from
the cotton warehouse here, which is
incorporated under the state ware
house system. The stockholders in
this enterprise decided some time ago
that the best thing they could do for
the community was to invest their
profits in a potato storage ware
house and this they have done, show
ing thereby broad spirit. of interest
in the community welfare. w. b. VIII
kerson Is president Of the Sweet Pota-
| to Growers association and C.. b.
Ratchford is secretary and treasurer.
Secretary Ratchford told the corre-
spondent recently that the association
had ordered 200 crates to be used in
shipping sweet potatoes and that 1900
additional crates would be made by
members of the association. These
crates each hold one bushel Of pota-
toes. The South Carolina Sweet Po-
tato Growers association operates
somewhat along the same lines as do
the Cooperative Cotton Growers Mar
keting association and the Tobacco as
sociation. If the weather is propitious
next week, association members will
dig and store their potatoes and be in
position to send the Hickory Grove
product to all parts of the country as
orders to ship are received from the
association officials.
Syrup Industry Growing.
An industry of this community
which was begun number Of years
ago on a small scale and which has
been developed until it now reaches
into thousands of gallons, is the man.
ufacture of sorghum syrup. Perhaps
the largest manufacturers in this sec
| ton are w. s. Wilkerson & Sons, who
have so far this season made more
than 5000 gallons of syrup and whose
total will probably reach the 1000
mark before they are through. Other
farmers Of the community who give
much time to the manufacture of sor-
ghum syrup are Messrs. Brown and
Buice and G. w. and Arthur Willker-
son. They will make several thousand
gallons this year. Most Of the syrup
manufacturers of this community put
up their product in half gallon and
gallon containers under attractive Ia
bells and there is no difficulty in dis
| posing of it in scores of towns and
communities in the Carolinas. That
the Hickory Grove syrup is superior
syrup to most of that which Is mad
in other sections Of this country ard
sold to York county people by the
thousands of gallons, there is little
question. Taking from a table can
Of syrup put up by one of the Hickory
Grove manufacturers the other day,
and also a can of "Karo" syrup, a
Hickory Grove dealer invited the cor
respondent to taste the difference.
There was difference beyond doubt,
ard there was no question that the
home product was much the best. "The
home product" the dealer explained,
SIS all pure syrup. The Lord only
knows what is in this foreign stuff"
| The sorghum cane crop Of Hickory
Grove is rather short this year as
compared with other years. But all
manner Of crops are very short in this
section for that matter. 1t has been q
hard year on those who till the soil
for a living. In most of the barns in
the countryside there Is room to spare
and many 4 hard working farmer is
now filled with anxious care. But
what there is Of the cane crop is Of
good quality and the manufacturers Of
syrup are expecting to make n profit
able thing out of their business despite