The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-12-13
\ cnARTRR ELECTION. !.

that the city government will be much
affected by the result. It is shown by
examination that the Democrats and
| Republic however mulch they may
differ on other matters, are one on the
| pfacice OF, hlchipg from the City Treas
uryI ,As specimens of the sharp prac-
tice of the Supervisors for emulation
among your own officeholders 1 might
adduce the markets, which are worth
over S2, 800, 600, yield q revenue OF 100000,
which costs $S9, 900 to coIlect.i The piers
and wharyes yield only tenth of their
| value, the rest being paid to the privi-
legged bidder The Transcript associa-
tion.gets $3.50, ,OOO.a year for publishing
the proceedings of the City Council,
which is sought for at Sl5y 900, and SO on.
The Sorghum Interest.
The Ohio Sorghum Association held
its third annual meeting last week, in
Cincinnati. The following statement
in the opening remarks Of the Presi-
fdentt on taking the chair, furnishes an
interesting account of the progress
made in the cultivation of sorghum; -.
81, The past season has been one of the
E1noSt Important and successful with the
tclne that has been experienced since its
| Introduction among us. Thousands
have3planted the cane this year for the
firstC time, and nehflylall1 : who have
i y
greatly extended their Operations. The
spring was in smany places backward
and unfnVotable; that was followed by
tn short and pinching drought, and this
1-lJy. a rainy season of Almost extraor-
,dinary character, extending over a
\ period of nearly three months. The Ist
4 Of September found the cane, as well
as the Indian corn, greer, !, and growing
\ lluxuriRntly; about as itfuSually an
/ pears on the list of August The sac
| charine matter was at this time unde-
EelOped, and an ;untimelY frost Would
have caused the almost total destruc-
| ton of both corn and cane. Fortu-
| tunately for both crops, the autumn
was as propihous MS the spring and
summer had beenpiIntoward. This af-
/ forded time for the maturity of the cane
i and gave to, the husbandman II boun-
liteous sacchnrine return for all his toll
land anxiety. Theibehhvior of the cane
land the phenomena manifested under
\ the peculiar circumstances of the last
l.season have been in the highestidegree
4 interesting. .sit u .EflHtfs45 s7Iri
\ From the best sources of information
\ at my command, / estimate that the
lfquantity of cane planted in Ohio, this
Ethan last year, and the product about
u % per cent. greater! Taking Ohio and
4 all the States west and northwest, es-
i Innate that the amount planted was %
per cent. and the product So per cent.
\ greater than last year. - ln pyI
Il We have now reached q point in the
development ofthis enterprise at which
1t Is appropriate for us to take u higher
4 stand. we, have solved all the prelini-
ihnry questions which arose upon the
4 first introduction of the cane among us
i We have demonstrated beyond ques.
4 ton that II can be successfully grown in
, our latitude. u During the nine years in
Il which it has been cultivated among us
a not a single disastrous failure has oc-
Icurredl ut has. proved itself a more
4 certain crop than wheat OF corn. II
thrives in soils of great diversity and
u bover "a range of latitude, as broad as
Il that upon which our common Indian
4 corn is cultivated. Those who have
n employed skill, neatness and appropri.
ate APPARATUS, have demonstrated that
the cane Is capable of producing an ex.
cellent table SYRUP and a sweetenihe
A adapted 70 many of the purposes fol
q which commercial sugar was formerly
Il Employed. And lately, all who have
i engaged in the business, either hI
iEgrowersf or manufacturers Of sorghum
II have found that it is profitable opera
tion-that sorghum pays.
\ We should now. take a step in ad.
I. vance, and that step all will ngree
should be. in the direction of greateI
perfection in the quality of the product
Il 1--WE have not vet deVelOped! the highest
4 capacity OF the cane for syrup, and
have made almost no definite and well
defined progress in the production Of
sugar. With reference to the latter. Ii
4 may very properly be said that the road
II and the only road, to success in sugar
making Is the great perfection in SyruI
mRking, for strictly good syrup con.
N siSts Of ofcrystalizfng sugar and water
and sugar separates itself from q pure
!, super-saturated solution as NATURALLY
snf -
N eHcess of water. Hence to make sugal
we have only to make pure syrups
when the sugar will most certainly
InhhIfest itself We may not expect tC
3 comprehend and master all these OBJ
stacles and difficulties with which thil
undertaking is incumbereda at oh6e, anC
1probably not tnr many years, but We
may signalize our meeting here by sbtiil
= movement toward ultimate success, anC
" to- this i tEpst this convention will
y earnestly address itself i..l =. -
i IaoiS&hile upon this subiect, j cannot re
ifain from expressing my conviction
, that we cannot, count with any conf
N denSe upon the production OF. .spgal
ffoth our canes through the interyen
> ton of any of the magical modes q
processes about which there are s,
tin9nYf Signoraut fraudulent and mis-
I chieyops pretenses. There is no Fpya
, road g sugar; Many MAJ o. the moss learn
6klG44146to f0A lax
stliworldi have. been employed for half 1
/ century NTH produGtionof sugar ffoiI
u its yaftons 4s6urces IN nature; and ytll,
! lRRccess aimed in all cases has beer
1 sallmelsured. by the scienitic and praqtiea
! fskill employed in the operation; and II
/. no case by legerdemain and mouhte
] bank nkperformanceS. i have the utmos
/. .iGonfidence that the farmers of tn,
: North Will ultimately become their owl
Z sugar makers tothe sHaune extent tina
, they arls now the makers of their oNFi
c1Ibuftenend cheese, but this will ben
pcomPlished by the pPlicaaon OF seien
i.tific principles to the whole, pracficl
: operation. We need to test and deter
mine the Successful variety Of seed, TIL
q mOstappropriate soil and cultivation
: and the best apparatus for the manufac
3 ture ot the product, When we Eahal
i, have become familiar With those ele
a ments OF the art, and shal1npply then
!. with fidelity to the work, we may Tex
. | pect TO produces sugar regularlyi syste
; bmaicallY without them we have no
hFhope toprodueei il except Rccfdentally
and in comparatively rare cases, .as q
t present ,S igIr57 AZ lnd e. 7. 81.
: There were, perhaps, a hundred, dit
: pfrent samples of syrup on exhibition
< and some twenty samples of sugar
9 Most of the former was equal, in colo
= and flavor, to the best OF the SoptheT
g tarticle. tie suss was fair enough {
III look, att. but did not dissolve In. tn
g mouth Gs freely astts Orleans qpeIitiel