Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1857-02-07

cdTrotsj you can, Win less LABOR than used tor
| corn, grow enough milet to make FIVE or six
hundred gallons Of syrup. You can grind
and boil from three hundred to three hundred
and fifty gallons Of syrup. / have not tried
it for sugar, and only desire to save some
5000 or $500 annually, that / expend for mo-
lasscs for my people, II can be kept for
grinding. think it is likely to compete with
the sugar cane Of louisiana. l think it is
particularly valuable in your region, and here
alter will give the particulars Of my expert
ments if you desire it:
Sanford Howard, Of the Boston Cultvator,
cultivated this plant last year. and his exper-
iment proved the practicability Of producing
1t In Massachusetts" and he suggests that it
would probably be more useful as forage
plant than for producing sugar and molasses:
an opinion which the above results sustain.
in addition to the above, the following cir
cnlar from Richard Peters, Esq, of Atlanta,
Georgia, will be read with interest by those
who desire to add another valuable plant to
those already cultivated In our country. If
any of our readers have experimental with it,
We will be pleased to have an account of them
as well as their opinion of its merits for sugar
making as well as for forage for cattle.
MEssEs. EDITORS feel it my duty to
make known TO the Southern public the result
Of Syrup making from the Chinese Sugar Nil.
let, in hopes that others who have sown this
valuable variety Of the Millet, may be indu.
ced TO work it up into syrup this season.
send you q few joints Of the Cane and a
sample OF Syrup, OF which have made seve.
raj barrels
i obtained my start OF seed during the
spring of 1855, from ID. Redmond, ESQ.,, Of
the Southern Cultvator. ] considered it
"humbug," from its close resemblance to the
Guinea Corn" until my children, towards
fall, made the discovery of its being to their
taste equal to the true Sugar Cane,
This year planted one patch April 18th,
another May 18th, near Calhoun, Gordon CO.,
on land that would produce, during sea
sorahle' year, forty bushels Of Corn per acre
and this year not over twenty bushels.
Seed sown csrelessly in drills, three feet
apart covered with a one-horse plow in
tending 10 "chop out" to q stand Of oEe stalk
six inches apart in the row; but failed to get
good stand, rs the seed came up badly from
the deep and irregular covering Worked
out, same as fer Corn, plowing twice hoeing
once.
BY suggestion of Gov Hammond, OF South
Carolina. | determined to give the Syrup
making fair triul; consequently ordered
from the Messrs. Winship, of Atlanta, q very
complete Horse-po Mill, with vertical iron
rollers, that has worked admirably, crushing
out juice for eight gallons Of Syrup per hour
worked by two mules, with one hand to put
in the Cane, and boy to drive.
On the 18th Of this month, finding the seed
fully ripe had the fodder pulled, and the
seed heads cut.
Yield of fodder per acre l, 100 to 800 lbs
Yield OF seed per acre, 25 bushels OF IS lbs
to the bushel.
First trial of Mill, 20 average canes gave
20 quarts Of juice.
COG average canes, passed once through the
rollers, gave So gallons l quart Of juice
passed second time through, gave gallons
OF juice the 40 gallons, quart. gave s gal
Ions thick Syrup.
l creinlly measured an eighth Of an acre,
having the best canes, and the best staud, an
other eighth having the poorest canes and
the poorest stand. The result give below,
the canes have passed once through the r0l-
Ter:
EEsT EIGHTH OF AN ACRE.
Yield of juice from 1915 Canes, 253 gal.
I" syrup from 253 gals. juice, 58i "
Rates per acre Of syrup. 34s
POOREST EIGHTH OF AN ACRE.
Yield of juice from 1850 Canes, 25a gal.
" syrup from lI9 gals. juice, 43!
Rates per acre of syrup. BAG "
Weight Of 80 selected canes 49I lbs.
Juice pressed out 25i tbs.
&" Crushed cane, % TBS.
Loss in crushing TBS.
Weight Of crushed cane dried in the
sun 81 lbs.
The juice should be placed in the boilers
Immediately oil being pressed out then boil
ed slowly, until the green scum ceases to rise
then stir in teaspoonful OF air Stacked lime
TO five gallons Of juice continue skimming
and boiling until the syrup thickens aud hangs
down in fakes on the rim OF the dipper.
have made the purest syrup by simply
boiling and skimming, without lime or other
clalifer.
The lime is requisite to neutralize portion
of the acid in the juice the true proportion
must be determined by well conducted exper.
iments.
The cost OF making the Syrup in upper
Georgia. in my opinion, will not exceed ten
to fifteen cents per gallon. This shall be
able to test another season, by planting aud
working up fifty acres of the cane.
/ am satisfied that this plant will enable
every farmer and planter in the Southern
Slates,to make HON al the Syrup required
for family use and believe that our chem
lists will soon teach us how TO convert the
Syrup into Sugar, FOR export, as one of the
staples of our favored cline.
Obtaining such unlocked for success, with
the Chinese Sugar Cane, ] concluded to try
our corn. From new ground planted 3
by 3, one stalk to hill, q week beyond the
roasting ear stage, | selected 80 stalks.
Weight Of 80 stalks, 35s
" crushed stalks, 10!
juice l54
Loss in crushing J
Yield og syrup, Ii pints
The Syrup is Of peculiar, disagreeahls
taste, entirely unfit for table use.
RICHARD PETERS.
Atlanta naor,,;, Santambar 1915