The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1882-01-12

Total .ss2 90
Expenses .... 81 80
Net profit S44 80
| Sale of glucose. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ~ w
Total profit ... .S64 So
He went into details concerning his opera
| tions in Louisiana relative to the manufac-
| ture of sugar, where he said it was carried
| on in very scientific manner. The labor,
however, was very defective. He had no
doubts about the success of the manufacture
Of sugar from sorghum. He also believed
good results could be obtained from the pro-
| duets of the seed, especially in the manu-
facaure OF glucose. He did not believe there
was anything deieterious about glucose, and
| it may be used in various ways with success.
He believed it should be manufactured as
glucose, and labeled AS such.
Prof. Scoville, being called upon for
statement of the practical results of sugar
making from sorghum, said the sugar works
| at Champaign, Illinois. were running night
and day, and that so, 900 had been raised to
place in operating machinery. The company
this year intended to plant 500 acres Of cane.
The machinery was similar TO that he had
seen in Louisiana.
Prof. Nicol, of Louisiana. said: When the
beet culture was first inaugurated in France,
the farmer then borrowed his ideas from the
midas, and fell into the same path that We
followed for three-quartcrs of a century.
We all know the failures in France at the
start, and we also know that it was through
the Intervention Of the government, the ex-
penditure Of large sums of money in central
factories, that finally made the culture and
manufacture Of the beet a success there; 50
let us warn you, centralize your sorghum
culture-put central factories where tons
enough Of cane can be procured to justify
the erection of machinery perfect aud mod
ern, and OF large capacity. 1 could extend
this paper to volumes in giving items as to
the manipulation Of sorghum juice. but will
say that the mode is absolutely similar to SUI
gar cane juice, and in the near future we
hope to become 80 identified with you AZ SUI
gar growers, that from time to time We can
forward to you such data rs you require. In
your new departure, on the very threshold Of
your industry, say, adhere TO the produce
ton Of pure syrup and sugar. We give tito
you as our experience that pure sugars can
be made from sorghum and sugar cane with
out the aid of deleterious chemicals. Avoid
the insinuating Spectator who would advise
you to use them. We owe it to our posteri- |
to produce heaith-giving food, and l Offer it
rs prediction that unless you do as we do
in Lousiana--manufacture a pure, unadu- |
terated sugar-your new-found industry will
amount to nothing.
The following resolutions were offered by |
Mr.. Hedges, and adopted:
WHEREAS, The profitable culture of the |
sorghum sugar cane In the northwest, and |
the manufacture of sugar therefrom, has
awakened an interest in its further increase,
and already capital and labor are largely en-
barked in the enterprise; be it
Rssolred, As the sense OF this convention,
that in any revision of the revenue laws, the
sugar industries of the northwest and south
be given that fostering care to which the SUI
gar growers Of the country, who are strug-
Cling against frauds and contending with
foreign slave-grown sugars, ARE entitled at the
hands of our government; be it further
R.sotred, That our representatives in Con-
gress be requested to give their encourage
ment in this growing agricultural develop
ment in this northwest which its importance
demands.
Mr. Stimson said. as the association had
devoted considerable time to considering
large areas Of cultivation, he would now call
the attention Of the association to small deal
ers. He then said $50 gallons of molassss
was made at the following cost Labor. %
horses, 81; three-quarters cords Of wood,
el.50. Twelve tons of cane at $50, added to
the sl3, made the aggregate cost S43. The
molasses was sold at go cents per gallon. and
realized $50.
Mr.. Stout, from Kansas, stated that he
three hundred gallons per
day, using twenty tons of cane, at cost OF
B63. 10 sold it at forty cents per gallon, Ie-
alizing $780, The investment was $1,000.
Mr.. Coleman said such figures should at
tract the attention of capitalists. Farmers
in Kansas and elsewhere were calling for