The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1857-10-17

Inc Uit1mate Anhueoce q Ch1nesc Sugar Cane,
The Sorghum of Impee, or Chinese suga,
cane, as it will probably end in being popular
ly called, is ripening rapidly, and the country
is filed with accounts Of syrup, rolling mill
pressure, and the other etceteras of its cul-
ture and manufacture. The first question
connected with it is. s'Is the culture gen.
orally speaking, pro6table?" OF this it
would seem there can be no reasonable
doubt. The syrup brings of itself not a
merely remunerative but highly pro6ta-
bio price, its flavor being generally prefer
ed to that of ordinary cane syrup. The
stalks in the South give two or three crops
to the season, and are BY far the best fod-
der known, while the seeds, which it bears
abundantly, are like corn, so far as nutri-
ment is concerned. .. 1928 a.
Whether it will really make good sugar,
is as yet undecided; but rather it would
seem because the proper manner of boiling
is not yet understood. One planter boiled
his without success, left it alone, and final
ly found it converted into very good sugar.
The fact is, that most of the experimenting
has been conducted by persons who did not
understand the business. tits very remark
able that, in Louisiana. regular sugar-plan-
tiers, who have given 1t a fair trial, seem to
be highly impressed with its merits as any
other. 1t certainly is not to the interest of
the sugar planters Of Louisiana to UNDER
rate the Sorghum. If it is fact, they can
never turn an agricultural movement which
has made such an enormous Roadway, all
over the country, as this is of the culture of
the Chinese sugar-cane. And if it is, who
ought to be the most successful cultiyatOrs
for it, if not they themselves? They have
the best climate, soil, mills, and market for
the purpose, to say nothing of experience
in syrup or sugar making. Decidedly they
it. t @..a
There are some of the old sugar planters
who apprehend that the general successful
culture Of the Chinese cane all over the
country would have the effect of seriously
injuring their market. Should this be SO,
1t would, instead of natural result, an in
explicable contradistinction to the law
which has been tested by almost every mod
ern improvement or advance in production,
that the increased supply at lesser rates al
ways stimulates the demand in full proper
ton to the increase. This law, 60 strk-
,ngly true Of labor-saving machines, is also
applicable to agricultural products. Give
people sugar for one-half OF what they have
been accustomed to get it for, and how
much will they require in two years time?
"Why," answers an unthinking man, 'mak-
ing allowance for ratio of increase Of num-
bers, they will consume exactly as much
again." But experience and analogy estab-
lish that they would be much more likely to
eat four or five times as much. Invent
process by which any domestic article can be
given for one-ffth Of its former price, and
IN very few years we find that fifteen or
twenty times Us much Of that article is re-
quircd. tits the old story which meets US
ut every turn. Railroads were, it was pro.
phesied, to destroy the breed of horses, and
now tits not possible to obtain horses suf-
ficient to carry produce to the railroads.
There are not SO many lsborers out of en-
ployment now with brick machines as there
used to be in the old days of hand labor
In short, We do not believe that any increas-
ed production of sugar or syrup in the
United States would tend to iniure the in
terests of the present planters of the south
west. On the contrary, we believe that it
would improve them by creating an unpre-
cedented demand for sugar in ali its varie-
ties.-Philddelphia Bulletin.