Show SUGAR SUGAE YAMS Hiss Mis Leola Le ln Hied Ried Tells How She Clears ears An Alt Income of Several Thousand Dollars D a STear Raising liaising and anti Selling Se ling Sweet Potatoes P I 1 sold OO barrels of sugar su r yams last ast astoor year at 5 a barrel said band Miss Leola Ried flied for Jor the last four years has made a specialty of raising pure sugar su r yam pota pola potatoes potatoes toes toe nd ind supplying the fashionable win tor tar resorts re of Georgia and Florida FlorId I The reason I began becan the work o or of Ids rais raising ii I I 1 ing In such sweet Potatoes was simply be because because because cause I 1 saw sa was Wits a great de demand e eO mand O for them Ever Every one who knows anything about sweet potatoes knows that th su r yam is the most roost delicious of ah all au authe the many varieties ThEY are not the it however wever toil and for that lf r e enn farmers have almost Riven UP grow Brow them for f J market mor 7 i T s t e variety that gives Ives them the greatest yield and which they know knew from the average a v purchaser will meet me with as ready sale I Iam Iam Iam am fond of tho the sugar su r yam ansi and when I began to notice that the hotels and boarding houses where northerners come for the winter were always asking for them I thought thon ht out my scheme and went to work I selected five s of oC good flat land not bottom on my fathers plantation and had no difficulty in getting IL it I would not borrow but spent all the money mone I had bad In bank which was some something something thing less than that year in the pur Dur purchase chase chafee of oC a mule mple and for tor the hire of a man manI I must admit that I 1 had to caU on my m father farther before the year was ws waso the loan of ot some corn corI and fodder to tide me tue over until my crop came in but it was not net much When hen mv my m potatoes were dug that first year I found that my yield was wa fifty tv bush bushels bushels bushels els of good eating potatoes to the acre acrel I l had previously solicited SOlI Orders order rde from the hotels hot h and an received some some on condition that the potatoes were as a I represented sl them the very verv V O best beat b t and pure mire cumin yams ams When en thy th were dug du I selected them perhaps I should hould say T I sorted them taking only those about the size of Miss fifed Ried wears wear i about a No 7 kid glove I had all al the tho strings rings string and ends end taken off of then banked them In hills his containing twenty tire five fe bushels to the bank one month later when the hotels began to in t fill fillup fl up tip with wih their winter guests I opened four of these theE banks bank rh the potatoes nicely and shipped them hem to the hotels where T I had bed od received the greatest en encouragement cour ement My price was 3 5 a barrel barel and I claim that then them are two bushels huh l lin in a barrel though there is i in reality realty almost almos a half bushel hushel more At first frt every even hotel keeper r kicked at a the price said paid FaldI it I was as exorbitant as nta toes the aver average average age a e varieties aTi te were In the market maket at 50 so r o a n bushel I asked them to give mine min ft s and let their ni Jve They The did so and andas anda andas as a a T result Ul I T sold soli all aU my cron eron before the winter was well wel begun and had bad receiver received o eq orders for the next season as I T take tak You can see e that hat after the mount borrowed browe from mv row 1 b An nV account here therA wn WS was not very verv rv much left lef that vear year but OP as a mv mY m father was willing to sell sel me tue ten acres acre of oC land on n credit T 1 was as s not nt em embarrassed embarrassed for T I did ld not D increase rm m hut but planned re the pew Tew five fhe acres in potatoes s nd the file p fi fc e pota potatoes toes to had ad vown ow the th h yeAr vear fot in om omand and an seas nes for food fod for mv m m male le T I fertilized i h and almost AlmOt mv mr Md yield of not top to theire t e As AF a result resul T cleared I and aId be henna n the next net year tAr with pi lev levof n v of food fend 10 for mv my mv mule and corn cm enough nou h to mt meil for mv my one hand The he third year ear T i n good od one pr 1 l rn J 1 t s rip i 11 t c i rv 1 T st year vear It I almost touched C nO W am suit thi this ear Pr a atho tho amr h rny 1 rop rP t t is 1 T i TW nets to cron em emt te t cK n ll in the tho end T think the th v vl W vin viii 11 Ul h b ever Teater T have 1 vp not nt T planted lant more than five fhe are acres In T s n fl 1 i mla rn rt rt o ett Ct to ta verv erv 1 soon O mp hec UCA e T 1 tIn T can C py raise mice 11 ac c 1 on tIt noun c well to tn s q T I co enila il n a ala larger la er amount less leps rolv rr l worked |