A quarter of a million dollars worth of early sweets have already been shipped from Elizabeth City and if prices hold up like they have to date, they will easily go over the half million mark by the end of the season. The production has already been more than 60,000 barrels with several thousand barrels yet to be dug, according to estimates by local dealers.
Currituck and Camden county farmers are said to be making money this year from sweet potatoes. In days gone by, prices have been so low that potatoes were left in the ground, but not so this year. Early Sweets are making it busy this season for the farmers in Currituck. A farmer from there told a reporter of this newspaper that there is no loafing there now, when they can dig potatoes and sell them at the waterfront right at Currituck Courthouse for around $7 a barrel.
This year has been one of the most successful ones the sweet potato farmers in this section have ever experienced. At least eh best in seven or eight years, according to J.R. Newbern.
More than 200 carlots or around 60,000 barrels have been shipped or handled by Elizabeth City brokers this year, Elizabeth City being the heaviest shipping point in Northeastern Carolina. Several thousand barrels have been shipped direct by boats from Currituck county to the Norfolk markets, however by farmers in Currituck.
Of the many thousand barrels that have been shipped to date, it is estimated that around $300,000 have been received for them.
From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Friday, August 22, 1924
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