. Jefferson County and Birmingham, Alabama ... ents per bushelin the local market as a low averageprice it can be seen that the businesswill prove most profitable. POTATOES. - Greater Birming-ham spends every day in the weekalmost a small fortune for potatoesalone. This includes sweet potatoes Twenly-Two as well as white or Irish potatoes, andit is really a reflection on our farmersto say that probably more thanninety per cent of this money is sentaway to line the pockets of farmersfar away. These conditions oughtnot to obtain, because it is absurdthat we must rely on Florida, Georgia,Mississi
. Jefferson County and Birmingham, Alabama ... ents per bushelin the local market as a low averageprice it can be seen that the businesswill prove most profitable. POTATOES. - Greater Birming-ham spends every day in the weekalmost a small fortune for potatoesalone. This includes sweet potatoes Twenly-Two as well as white or Irish potatoes, andit is really a reflection on our farmersto say that probably more thanninety per cent of this money is sentaway to line the pockets of farmersfar away. These conditions oughtnot to obtain, because it is absurdthat we must rely on Florida, Georgia,Mississippi, Virginia and Kentuckyfor the bulk of our sweet potatoeswhen they can and should be grownin Jefferson County. It is nonsenseto assert that our soils are not adaptedto sweet potatoes because a consider-able acreage is planted every yearwith splendid yields. The trouble is,the acreage is trifling compared tothe needs of the community. Farmersseem to be satisfied with a littlepatch mostly for their own use andseem to overlook the fact that a. SNAP BEAN FIELD ON MR. JACKSONS TRUCK FARM, JEFFERSON COUNTY wagon load of potatoes can be soldas readily as a bale of cotton or a coopof chickens and with decidedly morenet profit. There are plenty of soilsin Jefferson County without even theaid of fertilizers that will produceone hundred and fifty bushels ofsweet potatoes to the acre. Theaverage price of yams in the will easily average yeararound seventy-five cents per is easy to see from this that proba-bly no other crop would afford thesame net revenue per acre. It shouldbe borne in mind also that sweetpotatoes can be planted in our climateas late as June, after a crop of cabbageor white potatoes has been is a large consumer ofwhite potatoes commonly called Irishpotatoes, and a considerable acreageis planted not only in early spring but in July and August for fall cropbut it is probably safe to say thatless than five per cent of the potatoes
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