The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1858-03-06
Acrifult.r
FROM Euery's (Chicsgol Journal
The New York Journal of Commerce ami
the sugar Cane.


THIS remarkable astute contemporary in
common with others equally so, when self
Interest warrants it. has suddenly grown ex-
tremely friendly 10 farmers, and cOndesceGds
to ofier a few words of erudite counsel.
l. ,ii>cuur>eS like other eminent O. AMI
sazariouS publications (Which We doubt not
!! - ccSgiAgiI the wisdom Of planting one
sr two, o. a dozen acres more Of the Chi
re>e Sugar Cane than as planted last year.
u arrives at the remarkable conclusion tnat
. had az the experiments Of lSJ1 resulted
IN success OF failure, it would be easy to de-
Jyrnlne upon the policy of continuing or
abandoning It's culture in the future" But
with its watchsulncss, II does not d'scOv-
,r that - uniformity either of success or iaii-
ure, which justiles the farmer OF the coHn-
try IN engaging on a large scale IN us cIiu-
walton. or Of abandoning il without iu'thcr
trial" Very well, the latter clause OF the
advice Is perfectly satisfactory, but that II
should be caught mapping and iali to
witness the almost uniform cNpi eSsIcn OF
confidence in it. from those who have had
ANYTHING 10 20 with it excepting perhaI>
those largely interested III the sugar trate,D
is a source Of surprise to us.
We quote That the plant can be grown
successfully, - to quantity. in ncsriy all
sections OF the Union, has, we think, been
demonstrated. That its juice, when proper
" expressed, Is easily converted into syrup.
i not SUSCEPTIBLE of doubt. Ttatit has made
sugar, in few instances, is pretty well au-
thrnticated That the stalks are of some
value for fodder fer cattle, can scarcely he
doubted. These are facts about which there
need be no further dispute. But the ques-
lions which the farmers OF the country wish
LII. - no cal N..l q
g0od syrup? 2nd. Can this syruy, by
proper process, be converted into COOL su
gar? Sd Is the fodder suitable for, and
readily eaten by cattle and other animals
OH the farm and is it a profitable ann val
ua,.c article for that yurpose: f:h. la
view of all the fats, is its cultivation for
market or for fgmilv use prOfitable:'
The first, second and third questions have
a.Tcapy been answered afiirmativelv, III a
most emphatic manner, and the great woI-
der i. that with the facilities OF manufacture
the want Of experience. the successes of Is
%, should have been so greatly III favor OF
this sugar producing plant. 1t should DE
remembered that the early part Of last sea
so.! was very unfavorable tor the gePDttHGtiOH
not to say geowth Of the plant: that much
of the seed planted did not terminate, and
that much of that when di! grow, was new
,r used in an experiment, from want OF
crushing apparatus, 6,. But ihis cane was
not lost. A. an article Of food for cattle il
ha, paid for cultivation This is the uni
foom almost. aud as far a we know, Quite
experience If thousands Of planters. To the
fourth question, We anSwe yes It's produc-
tiou will affect and diminish the price of 9th
cr sugars, and bad it no other effect than to
parIIyze the sugar mOaOpolisis, this would
tc 1TgftaJle to all vino consume sugar. l.
tits effect what the commercial organ (and
ttcsr 1t copies , fear.
But W. copy Its Argument in favor Of its
cCi.zcIyative advice. Look at its research
eS.
BAT we End. on the other side, men
who tell us that their animals viii not touch
II. ,hal while it viii make syrup, it is not
fl, to eat or use in any form, that it viii not
make sugar at all, or at any rate to any
great extent, and finally that the whole pro
cess costs more than it is worth, and the
Who'll. experience oft failure"
Poor auimalSi Have they teeth, And
did the syrup burn? And did B-lchcr
furnish them them the important decision
relative to the sugar. Seriously, we SYM
p1thize with the commercial organ (anl the
eminent publications it copies i-douttlesS,)
and beg it will assure its readers that the
farmers Of Illinois will plant, at least, fifty
thousand acres more than they did last sea
spn. We despIse this silly patronizirS al
vice so RemdJoyueisH in tone and charact-
err Farmers are not such fools a it land
those publications it copies doubtless
seems 10 think.