The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-10-17
Sugar Growing and Tea Raising
In Indiana.


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Wm. q. lie Due, commissioner or az
riculture, arrived IN this city last night
and was visited By News man I'LL
morning.
The reporter asked what was doing In
the matter Of beet sugar.
Well, We now have ia press an article
covering eighteen months investigation
OF that subject ! would prefer 10 talk 10
YOU about sorghum A. a sugar producing
crop. The department a; Washington N
experimenting In these things An tbe
time. Ii j. doubtful IL beet sugar can be
proiilabiy made iii this country; Of sugar
from sorghum there i no doubt. Sor-
gium sugar j. made al Edwardsville. IT.
linols, BY farmer named Schwartz. and
also largely manufactured in Minnesota.
II can be made al ten cents pound.
Now rs 200 gallons Of heavy sorghum
syrup can be produced 10 the acre. and
$50 gallons where the cultivation Is not
specially attended 10, and As each gallon
will make ten pounds Of cryslAIiizcd
sugar. il can readily be seen that The max
ling Of sorghum sugar 1900 to goo
pounds 10 the acre is q very profitable
thing.
Indiana has a much better climate and
better soil for The growth OF sorghum
than Minnesota has. Another thing ii
favor Of sorghum ~ sugar crop. il can
be grown over wide extent OF country.
v herever corn j. grown Now the beet.
for sugar, j. al be~t restricted 20 a verv
small area Of territory. and depends more
..N.
'Speciic properties 81 soil. small sugar
rrfincries for making sugar FROM Sor-
|ghum, have been erected in several
places. There j. one near Chicago. 7
ihink another AZ faribaut. MINI. ana
smother Az -. Louis The sugar i IA
good u that from the sugar cane. and
can be made As white and hard as any
loaf sugar ever manufactured.
our tea experiments, what has be-
come 81 them.
We viii grow all our own tea in this
country, too before we have done with
.his thing Those of the southern states
that have enough rain fall are admirably
adapted 10 tea growing. beiieye-the
government gardens. the
4 The botanical gardens suggested
the reporter
I No sir. those are kept By a man
named Smith. and used bv lie congress
men and executive c1Eccrs "a furnish
them with bouquets anu cut flowers
No. -ir. ! mean The department gardens.
III which are kept an sorts of plants. na-
tive aud foreign. | have af these gard
lens. a. ! was saying. several thousand
tea plants. AL raised from seeds which
were picked from Tea piants growing ii
the southern states. This proves. Won
see. that ten plsuI- can be grown here.
But they will never be much of a success
in the far west. am afraid. Tie climate
i too dry. but It'll they can he grown
there. and grown rapidly. TOO. bAt the
ground must he well irrig ted. The
southern states l. the proper field for this
industry in America You can grow
some ira IN Indiana. bnf hardly mink
that the climate Is particularly adapted
for il. ID time every family ia this state
may he able 70 raise is own supply III
tea. and rrepafe the leaves for thc pol In
c@ch house. mt am sure that II viii!
ucfef bc a staple crCr 0l The sfaie
am meeting Tiih great success III
The distribution W Fu;x heat f0r seed
purposes in tie state. The farmers can
raise larger crops than from any other
sort Of iced. Ard although iiey make
trom two 10 five cents less Per buShcl
They raise enough more bushels 10 The
aere 10 make q handsome profit from H.
Tie new process millers want a harder
wheat for their u-r. have recently
purchased some black bearded wheat
from New r ana. which ! nt 70 Mary
land. and in that sandy. sterile soil ID pro-
dnced the enormous yield of thirty-eight
bushels ID She acre. Now II II will. Weld
10 much a. that III Maryland. il will do
equally ~ wcll in similar soils III similar
climaies IN other states. ] shall watch
that experiment with great anxiety