Possum and Potato Song, Nov. 21, 1920

In addition to the big corn and potato crops, rabbits, 'possums and persimmons are not ripe in Union county, and the moon is right for making kraut and 'simmon beer. This reminds us of a song the boys used to sing at corn shuckings when the writer was a youth. It went someting like this: "Bake dat 'possum brown; carve him up to de heart. Sweet potatoes in de pan; sweetest eatin'--carve him to de heart." Thanksgiving Day is the next stop, and while the cotton market is behaving itself in an unbecoming manner, we have the largest corn crop in the history of the country to be thankful for. And then we won't have another presidential campaign under four years. Corn is not the only agricultural crop that has been produced in abundance in Union county this year. The sweet potato crop seems to be a bumper one, which is responsible for a drop in the price of this particular product from 75 ents a peck to 75 cents a bushel. The best sign that a farmer intends to reduce his cotton acreage is to see him sowing a bigger acreage in wheat and oats this fall. (From The Monroe Journal, Nov. 19, 1920)