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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1915
Page
9
Farmers note rain boosts fall crops with sweet potatoes and other produce flooding markets. Reports from Toulminville and Big Point cite good yields in beans, peas, potatoes, corn, tomatoes, peaches and pears. Naval Militia drill planned in Mobile tonight at 8 at St Francis Street with Col. Feill urging new members.
Farmers in the Mobile section report good conditions for oats and corn with hay curing underway. Sweet potatoes are being shipped to New Orleans and Mobile with strong prices for high quality crops. Government help continues in cattle dipping, hog cholera cases are being controlled, and many farmers plan winter gardens with promising outlooks.
In Bayou La Batre and Theodore reports, crops are similar to last week with rain aiding growth. Pecans damaged by strong winds, sweet potatoes arriving with expectations of a large crop, corn soon ready for harvest, and remaining fruit limited to pearl varieties.
Turnerville reports rising fruit storage as harvest nears. Crops show better prospects than expected while fodder is baled. Rain improves pasture but delays digging potatoes. St Elmo farmers dig sweet potatoes for New Orleans markets with good returns and sand pears shipped by J M Davs.
Since Sunday of last week there were short heavy rains. Farmers are buying farm implements this week. Scuppernong grapes of many varieties are marketed and late figs are ripening. Nursery farms continue employing hands for field work. Another land sale was made recently and will be planted with citrus fruit trees.
Conditions favor crop growth but require a clear dry spell to mature early corn and dry hay that must be cut in.
In Orange Beach and nearby areas the recent rains held up rice harvests while fall forage crops, cane, late sweet potatoes, corn and velvet beans show strong progress. Strawberries, peanuts, watermelons, and late roasting ears are developing. Orange groves undergo spraying and orchard work continues amid ongoing rain.
Good rains in the past week boost crop outlook. Old corn is made. young corn recovering from drought. Cotton opening and picking begun. Sugar cane and sweet potatoes very good. Peas, velvet beans, garden crops improving. turnips planted. Cattle dipping for ticks going splendidly with no ticks found at the vat.
In Salitpa and Thomasville this week farmers report good yields with peas stored in barns and late rains boosting corn, sugar cane, and potatoes. Velvet beans and tobacco work continue as cotton picking starts and fodder is gathered for winter use.
A Kansas reader reports relief from long standing menstrual pains after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Another letter from a different woman urges readers with similar symptoms to write for confidential guidance from the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts.
Cotton is opening rapidly and early potatoes have yielded well. Sweet potatoes show promise with rain needed. Land is prepared for rutabagas and turnips while some farmers plant early turnip patches. Fodder saving continues and pears are plentiful. Households preserve large supplies as corn also does well and chicken raisers plan winter work with abundant eggs sold locally.
In Cortelyou area crops mature with rain delaying harvests for corn. Cotton acreage drops due to boll weevils and low prices while peas and potatoes are being gathered. Daisies shipping from a local flower farm reach Mobile. gardens improve and burr clover prep proceeds. Pears ripen and are canned. velvet beans show good prospects despite drought.
The rains have benefited crops in St Stephens with peas potatoes sorghum and similar crops thriving. Grapes muscadine and scuppernong are ripening and being preserved. Some cotton is being picked and will soon go to the gins.
The week brought heat and showers as farmers continue sweet potato harvesting and aim for a strong county fair exhibit in October. Early peanuts yield praised, sugar cane looks fine, cotton opening well, and hay drying hampered by frequent rains.
In Monroe County Franklin and Tunnel Springs districts reports say rains arrived late for cotton but aided sugar cane, potatoes, peas, and peanuts. Early peas are harvested with good yields. fodder and hay saved. corn cut and shocked. Cotton opening well. pastures improving. cattle in good condition. Pears nearing ripening and canning has begun. gardens being prepared for fall planting.
Garland notes heavy winds and rainfall with corn and velvet beans blown down. Farmers mostly save hay rather than fodder as late crops show big improvement. Sugar cane outlook looks promising for a good yield.
Conecuhum County Repton notes rains boost crops with Fall Irish potatoes and other vegetables growing fast Velvet beans and sweet potatoes expected to surpass prior yields Older residents say the area will feed itself better this fall though cotton output will be below normal
Hurley in Jackson County reports farmers busy with corn harvest and garden work. Gardens replenished with seeds for vegetables and fruit, especially grapes, maturing plentifully in the vicinity.
A few brief showers helped sweet potatoes and sugar cane, but farmers warn that ten to fifteen minutes of rain will not avert future losses. If a good rain does not come in the next week potato crops may be cut by at least half. Farmers have cut late corn for feed or topped it to improve development. Sorghum cane turned into molasses yields pleased growers. Early peas and velvet beans planted over the same ground are yielding heavily alongside corn.
In George County farmers face heavy rains slowing picking as cotton opens quickly. Corn yields reported high. other crops discussed but not detailed.
Traveling agent L P Mathews from the Southern Pacific praised mobile Alabama's agriculture and scenery. He said Illinois farmers on tours to the Panama Pacific Exposition showed keen interest, with many considering land investment in the Mobile area. He predicted a strong future for the Mobile section.
Maurice Byrne and W A Botta automobile men of Montgomery left yesterday for Biloxi Mississippi for a short outing after spending a day or two in Mobile. They are making the
The Nashville railroad reports total revenues of 51,606,015 with operating expenses 39,491,789 and net income 12,114,226 as of June 30 1915. Receipts and totals reflect local office figures and include 8 300 457 in Son 8 for the period noted.
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