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South Captures The Sweet Potato Market. G. A. Caldwell, Agricultural and Industrial Agent, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, Wilmington, N. C., sent the foolowing to The County Record: a "Recent estimates tend to show a decrease in recent years of acreage in New Jersey. The South is organizing to capture all Eastern markets with standard grades for sweet potatoes and yams." The above significant statement is found in a recent news letter issued by the bureau of markets, New Jersey State department of agriculture, in commenting upon the sweet potato 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 organizing to capture all Eastern market.;," with its "candied yams" or "sugar spuds;" in fact, it has already captured a big trade in the East and Central West. The popularity of the Southern sweets is broadening and the market possibilities of this splendid 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 country. Is. it any wonder, then, that the prudent potato growers of the Jersey coast are "evacuating" in the face of such competition and giving their attention to other crops? The superiority of the Southern sweet potato over thf Eastern grown varieties is recognized in all sections of the country. It is much sweeter and richer in flavor and nutriment. There is something seductive about this choice tuber na' tive of the sandy soils of the Southland?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. It is perhaps the most cheaply cultivated crop of the South. It 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 m I Two Do 1 THE SAMPL i AFTER TAKING 1 TO GET RID OF, 1 SEI& 1350 Outing at the yaj 36 inch* Romper Clott Table Damask, the y; 700 Sheeting,, the yai Sheets 400 Percale Scrim 350 Gingham 36 inch Nainsook... 45 inch Nainsook... Shirting 40 inch White Voiles 27 inch White Voiles Figured Voiles V H >^1.00 Figured Voiles H Sei'^es ^0 *? I NOW IS THE jj PRICES. I DOORS BELOW 1 ? ?? ? * ?;? to capture the markets of the East i and all other sweet potatfc markets of 1 the world. Now that the Southern 5 farmers have realized that there is no 2 limit to their market for this wonder- ' ful food crop, they entering into po- 1 tato growing with a new zest. They ^ are standardizing their best varieties 1 and steadily increasing acreage to * this crop. Furthermore, they are * learning the other very necessary s standards of commercial handling? J that nf trraHinir their Dotatoes and shipping in uniform and attractive ( packages, such as one bushel ham- 5 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 1 the kiln-drying and storage process, j{ The sweet potato is a very perishable ' product and unless it is put through a curing process, removing a large 1 per cent, of the moisture content, it ' is unfit for food within a very short 1 period of time. For this reason only ' a small per cent of the earliest grown varieties in the most southerly districts could reach the northern mar- j kets in a good and satisfactory state of preservation until* a curing pro- ' cess was perfected by which the tu- j bers could be made immune from ' ? ? i climatic conditions. Even in the heart ' of the South with the ordinary crude manner of "banking" the potatoes in ditches 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 a small portion of the crop reaches the local markets later than three months after harvest and very few farmers keep a sufficient quantity for home consumption past the date of mid-winter. Not until the introduction of properly constructed potato-curing houses was it i 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 i the South. This curing process abso- i lutely saves from 90 to 95 per cent, t of the marketable or graded potatoes, i The construction of these storage 1 houses, where the plans of the United f States Department of agriculture are e followed in every detail, guarantees c a uniformity of temperature and c humidity necessary to the proper cur- c ing of the sweet potato. The time re- r quired to cure the tuber is from ten j days to two weeks; and they are usu- j MP ors Below \ w % ,E STORE, FOR THE NI \ STOCK IN JANUARY A.T A SACRIFICE. THI rd 251 i, at the yard 350 ard 650 rd 730 $1.65 290 2 (V 250 250 350 650 280 180 OR* $3.00 ! TIME FOR YOU TO S4 HE S ?OSTOFFICE, ' % illy found to be very sweet and firm. \fter thorough curing they can be shipped any reasonable distance and ire found to be in fine conditions. Jured potatoes were shipped from Alabama to Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands, a distance of three thousand nues Dy ran and two thousand miles iy boat, requiring nearly a month in ;ransit, and were found in perfectly >ound condition, and were bedded for plants with excellent results. The rriumph, Nancy Hall and Porto Rico jach with a capacity of 10,000 to ire the standard varieties for curing. Curing houses are going up rapidly in the leading sweet potato states sf Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi and Texas. Hundreds of individual growers in these states have erected smrvll plants to store their respective crops, the capacity ranging from 500 to 3,000 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 30,000 to 100,000 bushel lapasity have been erected in some sections. A chain of storage houses, JO,000 bushels capacity, erdcted as convenient railway stations, within a radius of ten to twenty miles is operated under one management. This community plan enables the farmer to market his crop when it is harvested, or if he desires he can store his crop for a later market. Another advantage of the community plant is :hat it handles sufficient quantities to attract the car load buyers. These cuyers representing the large dealers )f the leading markets of the East and West, are on the ground often j enough to make competition keen. \lan Market Journal and Crop Report j For soveral vpars wp havo rnnsis- I iently urged farmers, bankers and business men of Virginia and the ^arolinas to overcome the enormous oss incidental to improper methods )f handling and storing the sweet-po?to crop; and in some sections curing ind storage houses have been built md operated at considerable profit; is evinced by the statement appended. 3ut, as a general proposition the 'armers are following the out-of-date, expensive banking method which :aus?s a loss of from 25 to 30 percent. and often-times a heavier loss >f the tubers produced at the cost of nuch time, labor and money. Statistics on four acres sweet pota(Continued on Next Page) LE Postofficc !XT 10 DAYS WILL GI" THAT WE ARE OVEI ISE VALUES ARE TO \ $5.00 Oxfords Silks 75? to Messalines 50 inch Organdie all colc 1 lot V ai and Torcnon l? 1 lot Lace and Beading. 1 lot. Children's school d Children's Dresses, 8 to Misses Dresses $3.50 to Ladies Gingham Dresse Ladies Silk Dresses ... Ladies Messaline Dresse Ladies Serge Dresses $1! Misses Middy Suits $6.5 Ladies Kimonas Ladies Bungalow Apron Ladies Black IJnderski lVE MONEY. COME I V .AMP] A. C. STROCK, FLYING PARSON' OFF AGAIN j 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 a forced landing one mile from Mitchel Field, Mineola, today, afttr % TO AVOI USE Epidemics of Influenza usual); the public of a return of Influenza t Influenza is becoming epidemic agai infection, a duty not only to.self but In the epidemic of 18fl it wa five of this disease. Last year pr and on a stupendous scale. So cat Oil (^Eucalyptus, combined with ot Eucaptne SaI.e. Every citizen she against the Flu germs which infect leading to the air passages is the be becoming epidemic. Eucapiae proti If You Take Flu by careless exnosure and failure to properly sterilize the air passagesthe doctor Should tn? called immediately. If neither doctoi* nor nurse are to be had take a good purgative. Reduc* the aching and fever by taking Aspf /.? i , ai ?i,? IOHC .laiili'iv; CUTJ wu: I HI mi fever is mastered. ttub the throat and chest with Kumpine. Pill the nostrils and sniff it 1 n-k into fJhe throat Put some Kncapiue on the hark of the tongue. Swallowing a Httle. no larger thin a j?ea. will do good rather than , harm. Place nlcaspnonfnl in a.coffee pot with water, bring to a boil and in? kale the steam through a pasteboard funnel. Keep up this treatment persistently till the doctor arrives. Many physicians will continue just this treatment and nothing more. Weakucss and heart depression are characteri tie of Influenza. Plain Aspirin is slightly heart cleprossant. For that reason Aspitone should be used as it does not depress the heart, containing with Aspirin a safe, slight heart exhilarant to counteract the slightly depressing effect of the Aspirin. Your druggist can supply Aspitone tablets, 3>V the box, and Eueapine Salve !?0c the jar. If your druggist does not keep it order by mail from the manufacturer^. Eueapine Salve is indicated in skin and ia therefore useful in treat sores, burns, bruises, insect bites, s of the air passages and as a curativi ently used, entirely dependable. 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The history of the disease ji n it is the duty of every citizen to tak to the pindic for every case developed eo is discovered in England that Oil of Euca eparations containing this superb antisej arrji grrni or similar enemies of human her volatile oils in a refined petrolatum mid use it, in nostrils and throat thre< the aumo8phere during the epidemic, st possible health insurance at the prese [>cts against infection of colds, coughs, s To the Doctor The following is the qualitative formula for Eucnpiue Salve. 'The quanti- . tative formula will be ^nt you together ar with a ful| sized jar of the salve on on receipt of yom-requeat. If you have' - * -1? i.1 I - VVf urn aireau.v proven tuc great vaiur in ? this formula in your practice, you will Jln ft" greatly pleased with results wli n tised^as an inhalant in steam v:is?r o 'h e. hen applied in throat nud nosrils aid wherever directly applied to any inflamed tpirfaee. 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C., will be the first stop in the itinerary which will take the aviators into nearly every Southern State. o Rub-My-Tism is a powerful antiseptic; it kills poison caused from infected cuts, cures olr . sores, tetter, .etc. - o Subscribe for The Refcord. rtri I LA E SALVE >s have ?or months been warnui r istificd this warning and now thrt' o all possible precautions again:, instituted a new center of infection, ilyptus was effective as n prevent : :>tic oil were used very effectively health can live in. its presence. 4 base constitutes the formula or ? or four rimes a* day ro protect x Tnis sterilization of the orifices nt time when the disease is again ore throat, catarrh, ate., as welL To the Druggist Last year .luring the Tntiuenza epimic, we were overwhelmed witu vus^ > * ilers for Eueapine to tore oegrenetna. were utterly unable to till all order J d ir.any had to be cancelled from or eer inability to manufacture Eoca- i F!c Salve fast enough. This year,'. iug to ouK extensive-advertising cam . . I ifii mo normal Dusiuess is mucn rger and wc mar agaiif oe unaWe to pply the full demand. . v: o f ' t If your stock is low. order at once avoid the possibility of shortage on sh orders. There is no .langer in >ckiflg liberally to meet t-mrrgenciei , -the rapidly growing popularity ?t icapine Salve assures' a oteady and ... nstantly increasing demand. If von have failed tt> stock it thus r, order from your jobber at once, icre is no other salve which exactly 8 the field of Eucapine. i'o substite is to do ?u injustice to yonr cnaners. Eucapine does opt olister the strils or the tender /tin of an: init's chest, but its curative, qualities , inflammatory conditions are unex? led. i of the air passages and of the ire throat, coughs, colds, catarrh, t. As a preventative of infection i> it is, when properly and persist" C * ' 't 4 , Clinton, 5. c. 1 L 1^1 . RE Y, S. C. I 5E. WE FIND, I ! ARE GOING- i , IEFO? 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