Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1917 — South Neglects Indigo. [ARTICLE]

South Neglects Indigo.

Some time, about 75“ years ago, the money crop of Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia was Indigo, one of the most highly prized commodities of the present day. That was before the invention of the cotton gin, and nobody is alive now in this country who knows how to grow Indigo. But a hundred acres planted to Indigo, by a man who knows how to grow it, would at this time bring him in more money than alfalfa, cotton, corn and peanuts combined. Indigo is the main ingredient of some of the high-priced dyestuffs, the scarcity of which Is felt all over the world, and which will continue to advance in price long after the war is over. The same soil is here on which it used to grow, only our forefathers found it more profitable to grow cotton, and Indigo was left for other countries to grojv and thrive upon.—Demopolis (Ala.) Times.