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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 19, 1921)
Georgia Potatoes. That Georgia grown sweet po tatoes, properly cured and ship- Ded, will find a ready market in the states of the middle west, is the opinion of H. W. Bingham, county agent of Washington coun ty. Mr. Bingham was in the offic es of the Georgia Farm Bureau Thursday, en route to Washing ton county, after a vacation of seventeen days, spent touring through Illinois, Ohio and India na. During that time Mr. Bingham says he conducted an inquiry as to how Georgia sweet potatoes were liked in these states. He savs that wherever he went he found that everybody seemed to like the sweet potatoes when they could get them properly cured. “I went into 207 restaurants in the three states I visited,” said Mr. Bingham, “and four.d that with the exception of about twenty, none of them used more than a bushel of sweet potatoes a week. But it wasn’t because these res taurant owners didn’t want to serve them, or because their pa trons would not eat them. It 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 wanted more, provided they reached them in good condi tion. They don’t want rotten or frostbitten potatoes, but they want good ones,” Mr. Bingham said he found all ot’ 1 r reason why sweet potatoes were not popular was mainly be cause people throughout the mid dle west did not know about them, how to prepare them, or of their food value. “We should advertise out’Geor gia’swe d potatoes,” he continued. '‘Advertising will market Georgia V marketed properly there will al ways be a bigger demand for them I han the state can supply.” Mr. Bingham said that in Wash ington county, the Washington County F rm Bureau had signed p a total of 31,000 bushels of sweet potatoes, which would be i arketed through the sweet pota to division of tlae Georgia Farm Bureau Marketing Exchange. This .county exchange, according to state f irm bureau officials, it is the first completed unit in the skveet potato organization, but ROUND TRIP SUMMER E* >v O W r< S a O k T f"* "L^ 4 *"p Ci J Jl ■ 'zss£ J—*' i- *^BE^ VIA. SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM t NOW ON SALE To various resorts in all parts of the United States i* Write V. L. ESTES, District Passenger Agent, 48 North Broad St., Atlanta, Ga., for full information. The Southern Serves the South. Third Divorce at 91; Through With Women CHICAGO, Aug. G. —Ambrose J. Rose, 91, is through with women for life, he announced last week alter he had obtained a divorce from his third wife. “The wom en are getting worse every gener ation,” he said. “My first wife was pretty good, my second was medium, and the third was no good at all. Women are no long er home loving, and 1 am through with them. This story illustrates the story that we heard of the man who had married three times, and died and went up to heaven and be sought Peter to let him in and said, "I married down yonder and had lots of trouble, and I want rest.” “Well, what else do you claim entrance to heaven?” “Well, I mar ried again and had much more trouble, so let me in.” “Well,” said Peter, "what else do you want en trance?” “Well,” said the man, “I married the third time and I just must get in.” “Well,” said Peter, “we have let men who have acted the fool, but we dont want all of fools up here, so go to the place prepared for just your class ot fools, you can’t enter here.” that many more were now being formed and would affiliate with the exchange. “in our county,” Mr. Bingham conuiiued, “we have agreed to spend 3 cents per bushel oil adver tising and about the first or mid dle of September we will send two women demonstrators to the middle west to advertise Georgia sweet potatoes. We want to tell the world of the value of sweet potatoes.” Mr. Bingham said the only cer tain way to cure potatoes so that they might be stored and kept in good condition indefinitely, was by the kilndrying method. He said that a recent big shipment of kiln dried sweet potato s 'were sent from Georgia to London, Eng land. arriving there in perfect condition. “Sweet potatoes offer a big op portunity to the farmers of Geor gia,” Mr. Bingham said, “and in Washington county we are be ginning to realize it, and are going ahead with plans for cashing in on them.” SUBSCRIBE for THE WEEKLY HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY, McDONOUGH, GEORGIA Here’s why CAMELS are the quality cigarette |c*"£l I* §{»h|l I S If” /\l I I spld jj fj TURKISH &> DOMESTIC H ORIGINAL AND PC XI GENUINE EL Full Size of Till Length of Roll, %“ :i ' 1 ie *° our wire—it is full vl v m JP?lwf size. Gur ro^s are Tull length. 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