Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-04-06

then what each acre ought to produce.
We say this has been made and can be
made w.eh a good crep and proper man
ufacture, and even very much better
has been dcne."
A general discussion followed in
which it was stated that amber cane is
the most profitable crop grown; all
parts of the plant can be used, zoe
leaves for fodder, the seed for chicken
and pig feed, and the juice of the stalk
for making molasses and sugar; the
yield is large, 40 to 60 bushels of seed
being raised per acre. and 100 gallons
of syrup made. The best manner to
cultivate it is in rows four feet apart
and the plants eighteen inches apart.
One gentleman said that the crop
should be planted between the first
AMI tenth of May. Mr.. Hall thought
that it would do equally well il not
planted before June first. The expe-
rience of those present in the use of
different kinds Of machinery for secur-
ing the liquid from the stalks, was
given; also the best way of reducing
the juice 70 syrup and sugar. Some
favored quici, boiling. Others thought
that slow boiling was abou. the thing.
The seed had been ground into flour
and made good bread, according to an
article from an Iowa paper.
The statement that the state was pay.
ing premium on all sugar and syrup
manufactured, brought Hon. Lyman
Murray to mis- feet and wanted to know
who would pay the taxes if all went to
growing cane. He believed that it was
destined to be great industry, and
one of the greatest benefits to accrue
from it was the driving out Of the
market the miserable adulterated con-
coctions sold as syrup at the present
time.
Mr.. Cook-That is good point and
| am glad to state that a bill has been
to be introduced into Con-
gress to tax and regulate the sale and
ofglucose. The intention
is to put stop to the gross fraud on
the public of deleterious product from
corn-starch by the use of "sulphuric
acid and soda ash favored with a small
per cent of Louisiana molasses and sold
as golden syrup" 1t is by conceal
ment and deception only that such
compound finds market. The Com
missioner of Internal Revenue, Gen.
Raum, makes this statement concern
ing the glucose in use:
"The adulteration of syrups with
glucose is practice which has recently
spread alarmingly. The extensive use
Of glucose, or the grape-sugar of COM
merce. is held to be the main origin Of
Bright's disease of the kidneys, and
the cause of the present prevalence of
that malady. The importations of glu-
cose increased ten-fold between 1875
and 1877, and at the same time extern
sive factories were established for its
in the Western States.
The article sold as grape-sugar is man
ufactured by beiling corn-starch with
sulphuric acid Toll of vitrol) and mix
ing the product with lime. A portion
Of the sulphuric acid, and sometimes
sulphate of lime, and other
noxious principles remain in the
glucose.
In the analysis of seventeen samples
VI 'bpiC syrup ny ~. iNCooity
were found to be made of glucose, one
Of them containing al grains of oil of
vitrol and ia grains of lime to the gal
lon, and one from q lot which sickened
a whole family containing seventy-two
grains of vitrol, twenty-eight Of sulphate
Of iron (coperas), 1868 of lime to the
gallon. The cheap sugars sold in
are stated, on the same
to be adulterated with poison
Gus substances.
Analyses of the sugar sold in New
York reveal the presence not only of
glucose with its inherent poisons, but of
muriate of tin, a formidable poison,
which is employed in the bleaching
process Mr.. Fuller, retired importer
Of sugar, called the attention of the
United States Board of Trade, in their
meeting held in New York in Novem-
Der, 1878, to the dangerous adulter,
tons practiced with sugar, honey, and
molasses. Glucose is largely used to
adulterate maple-sugar, candies. jellies,