The daily gazette., 1880-12-17

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10 sie !, ,sueAR, ynox SoReHuM.--A few
,SsE ls,sars ago quite anefOrt was made in
.o va psiawars 70 produce sorghum sugar /;
io Ma and number Of our farmers succeed
"A rcd IN growing the cane and making Q
s,ieY'fAir article OF unolasses and brown
XIV N ',sngar.l But 10 the price Of sugar fsll,
no nor the people became accustomed 10
il'o paying the high price, the effort 70
y, u ',s faiss cane and produce sorghum sugar
10 30 weakened aud finally ceased. But
-iisa such has not been the case i'm III inois.
:, ,ilos ., IN thst state convsntion Of sorghum
bas . growers WAS held last week, and the
-slSal attendance of farmers interested must
o. have been large, AS there were shown 60
samples Of sugar and syrup manpfac-
.Tsarsd feumIxmber csne. 1t was there
.et argued that the difficulty Of crystal
ytJ hzing ths syrup had been mastered.
.io!ss The cane can be cultivated about as
bds 9sssily al corn, and the Illinois grow
nav efs argued that the eost Of making
good brown sugar ffom sorghum
syfap need not exceed three or four
nosn 9csnts d pound!o IL these statements
snc ARE true IL may bs hoped that the
-. ,,a western farmers viii soon see that
ma III is greatly, to their advantage 10
grow more sorghum and less corn and
wheat, since there ought to be far
~ = more money in the manufacture Of
90 = sugsf than in the growing Of cereals,
Va IS with which the market is so frequent
ly overstocked. Should the crops
a. abroad be good and the demand from
" ToEurope cease there would be no ready
l' q y, sale for the surplus corn and wheat at
~ hnhome. This is not 30 with sugar. Ii
''a |. D., y II always in demand in this country,
liisd bscause there 10 not more than one
n, tenth or what we annually consume
20 raised here nine-tenths Of all we con-
.,,'., sumo is raised abroad and imported
1aat cash cost of many millions of
dollars. The annual consumption IL
now said to be 1 ,0OO, 900, 900 pounds,
1aO and is increasing with the population.
1t is shown that we are paying about
ta is 800, ,000,0 900 for foreign sugar when
q 'ns We ought TO be producing the greater
""" part OF 1t at home. A few Della
a.. wareans are now making most com
mendable effort to produce sugar from
---- beets, and with fair success. But /
does not seem 30 incumbent upon til,
the farmers Of the Atlantic coast t,
a1 ta raise beets or sorghum. They ar
-.. nearer market and can find sale 70
their corn and wheat when it will no
pay to freight these articles from tn
West. Some Of the sanguine peopl
Of the South declare that Louisian
"a ~ could yield enough sugar TO supply IL
B entire home consumption but they
not raise ten per cent. of what they sa
they could. Hence their talk ls onl
to secure protection. That enoul
81 Ed sugar might be raised in Louisian
Mississippi and Texas to supply Il
home demand we have no doubt. B
4 it 10 not done, and is not likely to
done for mary years. The field the
10 an inviting one fer northern capt..
just as much 90 as the raising al
manufacturing of cotton in Gsorg
and the Carolinas. Why the northe
people who have any amount of ca
tai lying idle do not avail themsely
Of going South and buying rich sug
and cotton plantations for half tn,
worth and one-third their cost befc
the war, is mystery. And this C
only be solved in the fact that I
land il burdened with black pop
lation in whom they can have no
lance. If the Northern capital
had half the faith in the colored m
they pretend to have, the South wo,
not be in need Of money to-day
carry on great agricultural enterpris
nor would the rich sugar and cot
lands be sold in open market for
than one-fourth they sold for in Il
under the energy of the much abu
stakeholder. This is not right. ]
people who made it daily practice
abuse and underrate the efforts of
Southern slave holder have had
fifteen years and have now an exc
lent opportunity to 20 South, as
STAKEHOLDER did, and buy and W
those Itch lands to advantage. v
do they not do so? We hope t
will ultimately but they are 8
about it, and this only goes to 81
that they fear the contact with
brs colored race, and would rather v
= until they have been more fully t
in their new condition. Negro sla,
is now dead forever. In what t
rests the difficulty in the way of