Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 135, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1917 — WHERE PAPRIKA COMES FROM [ARTICLE]

WHERE PAPRIKA COMES FROM

Foreign Product Now S: ocessfully Raised by Many Farmers In South Carolina. Years ago agents of the bureau of plant industry turned their attention to paprika pepper. We don’t know what headed them toward pepper, and the report of their work does not tell us, -a writer in Everybody’s says. Paprika pepper is probably a mighty small Item In our national food budget. Up to that time we imported all that we used from Hungary and Spain. Our agents studied the characteristics of the plant and the soli and climate and cultivation that it required. Then they came back to this country to discover where paprika pepper could be profitably grown here. Down In Florence county, South Carolina, they found what appeared to be the required soli, climate and labor conditions. Moreover, the land there was not giving a really profitable account of Itself. After the department had proved by its own experiments that paprika pepper could be successfully grown In South Carolina, It furnished seed to a group of farmers who agreed to grow it under their directions. This was to insure a product of a propel standard. The Industry Is now fair-ly-well established, and If ever ws should be at war with Hungary and Spain at the same time, probably South Carolina could supply all the jaded palates of this country with a standard brand of paprika pepper.