The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-12-08
SUGAR-MAKING NORTH q SOUTH.
Nashville American.


Louisiana is not alone i'll it, advo>
cacy of the maintenance of the tariff
on sugar. The gradual growth and
development of the sorghum indus
try in the North and West is making
earnest advocates of sugar tariff in
that section, as well as in Louisiana.
"The present need Of the Northern
States" says the Chicago Inter
Ocean, one of the most earnest advo-
Gates of the present duty, sis the di-
versifying of these farm industries
by the introduction Of the sugar beet
and the maintenance of the sorghum
sugar industry. The lessons of the
past few years ought to have convinc>
ed the farmers of the West that
wheat can no longer he raised at a
profit, and that the European mar
ket for breadstuffs is pot that must
soon run over. Every year brings
us nearer the period when there will
be greater surplus of wheat raised
in this country than it can possibly
sell or get rid OF. What is to take
the place of wheat? The most prom
ising crop we can see is sugar, wheth
er produced from beets or Sorghum"
AMI it quotes from the Boston Com
mercial Bulletin to prove the exist.
ence of new interest in sugar Gull
ture. eff the signs of the times can
be believed" the Bulletin writes. "the
next industrial boom is to be in SUI
gar and sugar machinery. The prac-
ticability of the production of sor-
ghum sugar in the United States as a
commercial success is already dem
onstrated, and in three different loca,
tons widely separated in latitude and
longitude the industry is already es-
tablished. Rio Grande. N. j., made
$4,000 pounds of sugar last year,
and it is claimed, will this year
double the product. At Champaign,
ILL.,, there was product of 100, 900
pounds last year, which will this
year be doubled. At Hutchinson
and Sterling, KS, there were facto-
ries which have already demonstrate
ed the practicability of the industry
as well, and there is nothing to pre-.
vent the establishment of 1000 SUI
gar plants during the next ten wears.
and the production of S25, 200, 900
worth Of sugar This is no visionary
matter; the product may quite likely
be $50, 900, 900 in that time and the
value of machinery and capital em-
ployed fully $3.50, 100000, even if in
that time we are not producing the
entire S100,000,000 worth of sugar
now imported"
The sugar producing capacities of
sorghum are abundantly attested by
practical results at Rio Grande, n.
j., and by the analysis of eleven va
rieties of sorghum by Mr.. Peter Col,
lier, chemist for the Department of
Agriculture, showing the presence of
1853 per cent. Of available sugar in
these sorghum juices, or in the juice
actually obtain an average OF 2,llo
pounds of sugar to the acre.
Southern States have the advant-
ageover the colder States of the North
in a soil which gives more sacharine
matter and as increased time for
for working the cane from the length
of our seasons.
The process of sugar making in
wolves an outlay of from 5000 to
$40, 900, according to the character
of the machinery employed. The
former machine will not take the SUI
gar through the refining process, on
~ through the centrifugals, machine
that revolves with great rapidity and
throws out the molasses, leaving a dry
white sugar, equal TO Coffee A sugar,
but purer than any kind except the
graduated sugars