The national Republican., 1861-12-10
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN.
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An oxnor;snosd sugar grower of. Missouri |
.d5resses a oommuu c alton. to the st. Lou |
R.r,,b,;can. in which the Chinese cane in cor |
6dently represented to be perfectly adeqate
10 the task Of supplying the Northern Statef
with sugar from native sources. He writes ~
follow:
In many paris OF The West syrup OF CO." |
quality has been made from the Chinese calc |
Int people have been slow to real Ze the fact |
that certain and dbn ant yield Of good q,,o'
ity Of sugar can he "bttined from this plantL
Mr.. ]. S. Lowering. ~h -" experience an
skill as a retiner re- derrd him competei.'
experimenter, from repeated trials, In 1851,
with the juices OF canes grown by hin''
SELF estimated the probable yield per acre II,
1922 pounds Of sugar, and 74.39 gallons u
molasses. Since that time no published suu''
ments Of actual experiments have led tue pun
lie to believe that such results were attalnaoie
uniformly and by appliances within the reach
of fpeople of ordinary means. Since then, there
have been repeated experiments with repeated
failures. and occasionally an example of success.
but nothing like uniformity Of result has been
claimed.
The writer of this has been Informed OF no
instances in which sugar has been obtained
from epery portion of the stalk Of the plant, nor
with diny and regularity from any pat
of II.
The following statements, based upon great
number of experiments made by.myself with
great care. are given to the public with great
confidence in their accuracy:
l. Crystallzsble sugar can be readily en-
tracted from any portion of the stalk OF the
Chinese cane, when completely ripe-from the
extreme tops as we'll as the lower joints; the
juice from the lower parts of the stalk being,
however, more abuudlut, richer in sugar, and
more pure.
2. The soil best suited to its sugar producing
qualities is a light, welt-drained, sandy louur.
10 climate the mean summer temperature Gt
,ohich Is about IS degrees Fahrenheit 1t will
ripen often when the summer mean does not
fall below 10 deg as at Pittsburg, Pa. Clevc
land, Ohio; Chicago, H.; Madison, Wis; and
southern Minnesota; but along this line il
is more uncertain. The summer isotherm o.
IS degrees, passing through Washington city
Louisville, KY, st. Louis, Mo-, and Leaven
worth, Kansas, defines limit, along and soutt
OF which it will ordinarily ripen perfectly and
early, and 1t will often mature perfectly tSC
degrees north of that line.
3. In such soil and climate, aud with suitable
apparatus, the yield Of crystalIizable sugar
will vary with culture, &c, from 400 to l SOC
pounds to the acre. and molasses from IS to
100 gallons.
l. With the aid of suitable method anil M.
terials no more difficulty attends the manutac.
ture of sugar from the Chinese than from the
Louisiana cane the expense of the former is
much less, the product equal if not superior in
quality, and in quality nearly equal. As To
the methods practiced may say that | have
succeeded, uniformly, in obtaining good arti
Gle of brown sugar from ripe cane, by the pro-
cess used by the sugar growers of Louisiana
without vacuum pans,) by the method re-
commended by Mr.. Lovering-by the method
of Wray, and au article OF much fuer quality
both as sugar and syrup, by new process Of
my own. | reserve, for another occasion, an
estimate OF the comparative value of these
methods and other details. Permit me to add
that, during a residence of nearly three years in
the valley OF the Lower Missouri, have been
convinct d that iu that riCh and picturesqu.
but much negl' cted region is the future seat o
new department Of Western industry, whict
will one day contest the palm OF production
with Louisiana herself. The climate is all tina
can be desired, and tor such a purpose the sol
which covers the beautiful bluff highlands al
along the river from Kansas to its mouth,
peculiarly rich pulverulent, silicious loan -
believe to be unmatched.
F. L. STEWART Canonsburg, Pa.
OLae of jefferson City, Mo- J