Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-19
MINNESOTA CINE GROWERS.

A letter from the Hon. Seth Fl. Kenney, O
Morristown, Rice county, received Saturday
calls the attention of the GLOBE TO the an
nual meeting of the Sugar Cane Growers
association of Minnesota, TO be held a
Minneapolis, Thursday and Friday of this
week. Mr.. Kenney is PRESIDENT of the as
ISOLATION, and with Mr.. Miller of Dundas
and o very few others has deserved and won
great credit for the enterprise and perseyer-
ance with which they have conducted
their experiments in the cultivation of sor-
ghum canes and the making of sorghum
syrup, for twenty years or more, to the con
summation of the development and pruning
of the amber cane of Minnesota to be
FINE SUGAR CANE,
equal to the Sacchdrum CGfcsn0runs, or SUI
gar cane of the South, in the sugar cane ele-
ments of its juices, though differing from it
in combinations, such as require different
and perhaps moro careful processes for the
profitable production of pure sugar. Mr.
Kenney and others like him have the inter-
est in this matter of specialists-of men
devoted to one idea, it may
10 lucy nave ploNCo "
mako every philosophical citizen share in
their interest. They have proved beyond
doubt that the farmers of Minnesota may
not only raise their own supplies of pure su-
gar syrup, but that they may contribute an
immense produce to commerce, thereby
strengthening the commercial position of St.
Paul, the natural point of exchange for the
new industry, besides adding to the agricul-
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able element. They have also demonstrated
that the Juice of amber cane, properly treat
ed will produce sugar Of the finest quality,
but they have been unable with their ap-
planes, as yet, to establish beyond doubt
that large product of dry sugar
may be probably obtained. MIR. Kenney
and others in our State and the Silver Lake
company of Illinois, did operate with ap-
proved appliances last fall, but the fall sea-
son was exceptionally unfavorable, and they
had to work with stale cane and fermented
juices, from which best results could not be
obtained. Under these circumstances, how
ever, they
DID MAKE GOOD SUGAR,
and Mr.. Kenney's letter to the GLOBE edi-
tors is accompanied by small sample, the
crystals of which, though fine, appear to the
naked eye to be well defined and, from ap-
pearancs and taste, we believe it would be
pronounced by experts and shown
by the polariscope to be nearly pure sugar
really superior in saccharine qualities to
most of the sugar of commerce, in which
authorizations and hurtful chemical processes
are more frequent than consumers are gen.
orally aware of. Mr.. Kenney, although he
had five or six thousand gallons of heavy
syrup last fall, equivalent in weight and IN
der the polariscope to 100 to 12O barrels of
sugar with q residue of 300 to 1920 gal
Ions Of syrup, made, as We understand, only
about ten barrels of sugar. We are not in
formed but that in part this small sugar re-
suit is to be attributed to his working for
syrup primarily; but the season was
undoubtedly unfavorable to sugar making.
There were early frosts or appearances of
frost, which, with the ripening of the cane,
required early cutting. Then followed ex-
ceeding hot weather, and the cane mills and
evaporators were unequal to grinding the
cane and reducing the juice before fermen.
tation set in.
MIR. KENNELS SUGAR
is from syrup made up after the 18th of Sep
tember, under these unfavorable circum-
stances, andiyet it is superior article of
pure sugar ard enough to indicate that from
freshly cut or unfermented cane, such as may
be had for several weeks in every favorable
season, sugar may be produced in large
quantities and undoubtedly
with protit-for although the am
Der cane juices differ from and seem
to more obstinately hold unsaccharine
matters than the juices of sugar cane, yet
the necessary variations of methods of
treatment have been ascertained, are success
fully applied and are no more expensive
than the established methods of treating
Southern cane juices, which, by the way,
were even more uncertain as to products
fifty years ago than are tho amber cane
Juices now.
But, to return to the meetings OF the cane
growers to be held this week. They will be
attended by the United States commissioner
of agriculture, Hon. VIM. G. LIE Duo,
by sugar experts and sugar ma
chinery men from the East and
South, by O few leading cane growers aud
syrup makers of Illinois, Iowa and Wiscon-
sin, and by number of cane growers and
syrup and sugar makers of our State-the
latter of whom will have their products on
exhibition in quality and quantity enough to
DANISH ALL DOUBTS
of the amber cane industry. Among the
papers to be read and discussed will be one
from Geo. G. w. Bstcher, the well known
young sugar chemist OF st. Louis, and an
other from DR.. w. j. Wilhelm, the con-
structor and superintendent of the Faribault
amber cane refinery, and letters from j. A.
Hedges, of st. Louis: Il. j. Wilson, of River
Falls, Wis; B. w. May, of Window, and
John Nash, of Hudson, Wis. A valu-
able letter is also expected
from an observing, pains taking
cane grower of Olmsted county. The sam
pies of sugars, syrup and cane and sugar
machinery promised for exhibition will be
representative in extent and the papers and
discussions will cover practical methods of
cultivation, costs of the same, methods of
treating the juice and products, with cost,
and refinery work, etc. All in oil, the farm
or would be an Indifferent one who conld not
make attendance upon the meetings profit
able to himself, though he had to pay rail-
way fare from the farthest border of the
State.
Butter for the Black Hills.
Among the Sabbath guests of the Mer-
chants, was Mr.. w. j. Ives, of tue firm of
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