By F.H. Jeter,
Extension Editor, N.C. State College, as published in the Wilmington Star on Aug. 4, 1949
A movement is on foot tin Carteret to install one of the
sweet potato dehydrators. Ronker Stanfield of a local fertilizer company has a
number of well-constructed buildings with concrete foundations which are not to
use at the time of the sweet potato harvest. Johnny Lassiter was done there the
other day and found Mr. Stanfield interested in installing a dehydrator to
process the size and cull sweets for use as cattle feed.
Farm Agent Williams says that most of the sweet potatoes in
that section are grown in dark soils and often do not have the eye appeal as to
those grown in other parts of the state. There is also a great need for an
additional feed supply in that section and since three bushels of the sweets
properly processed are equal in value as a stock feed to one bushel of corn,
and because Carteret growers produce about 100 bushels of the sweets per acre,
it is felt that local growers could more than double their present yield of
feed by enlarging the acreage to sweet potatoes.
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