Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-19
APPLES AND SUGAR.
The Cane Raisers and HOrticmlturiats Com
6tne-The Third Day.

in the room allotted them for their conven-
ton in the Agricultural building at the
university yesterday morning and were
called to order by President Miller.
An address by Hon. Seth Kenney was
the first thing on the programme and was
read by the gentleman, who said: 1.-The OBJ
iect with which we come here to compare
notes cannot be classed among the lost
arts, as history viii record in after years
that Minnesota, up near the north pole,
produced by the ton the first amber cane
sugar, and furnished the commissioner of
agriculture, who heralded it to the world
that new source of sugar had
been discovered. Gen. LeDuc has
been the butt of ridicule, but
some of the agricultural papers noted for
abuse of him, are now loud III praises OF
this comparatively new industry. Adopt
ed, like all new pursuits, without pre-
vious experience, it has proven with
some a failure. The present commission
er of agriculture proposed to the cane
growers to compensate them for conduct
ing certain experiments embodied IN
report to be submitted to COM
mittee to examine and compensate
those best calculated to advance the cane
| industry. The wisdom of this propo-
sition is apparent when are considered
the difference in soil and climate, the large
number engaged in the industry, the differ
ent modes of cultivation and the varieties
best adapted to soil and climate; also the
various modes of manufacture and the
| time and manner of securing the cane.
But now a big man, the comptroller of the
treasury, questions the right of the COM
missioner compromising the corn grower.
! The problem to solve is where did he get
his wisdom? l PLANE ! forty acres IN early
amber cane, beginning on the 10th OF May,
on land that had clean cultivation IN pre-
vious wears. Some of it was fertilized
with cane and wood ashes. Ashes make
one of the best fertilizers, as there IN no
unpleasant flavor impaired to the syrup,
| and no weeds to increase tn 9 cost of cult
walton. With land previously Clean. the
cost of raising the crop was much reduced.
More especially was this the case last
season, when the corn would not average
more than six inches in height on the goth
of July. The crop did not attain more
than three-quarters its usual richness, and
averaged only about seven degrees by
Baume's saccharimetre, counting the lmma-
ture cane. The crop in the highest ground
ripened about $500 pounds of seed and
the loss in seed from immature cane alone
would amount to several hundred dollars
as we have practiced boiling the seed for
| feeding hogs, with the best results. My
method was:
Heat the water until it boils, put in the
seed and boil until soft. Putting the seed
in cold water will not answer as it burns
Ii T 7 ur1,tb
as much as corn, and more than pays for
the seeds get ripe.
SEED SHOULD BE CHANGED
from north to south often, and southern
corn growers tell me they get the best re-
suits from seed grown in the north.
always mark my cane ground three and
inches high, thin to six
this way, most of the labor
can be done with horses. l usually buy
about half my crop of corn, pay seven gal
Ions per ton of refined syrup; or cash $3.50
per ton, stripped. If not stripped, left in
| the field until the leaves are wilted and
then 1920 pounds for ton. Cane stripped
and tied in bundles and crossed up every
other tier, if dry when piled keeps well,
otherwise it is liable to heat If the piles
are numerous space of three feet be-
tween piles is necessary for ventilation.
Pile over if heating begins. l used No..
5 Niles mill for the first nineteen days, but
little more than one-half the time and pro-
dnced 344 gallons of syrup each twenty
four hours for the entire nineteen days.
I weighed all the cane and found l got
fifty seven per cent. of the juice when
I weighed the product. I treat
ed the juice with sulphur bath,
exposing it to sulphur fumes on coming
from the mill. A summary of the first
nineteen idays'iwork, ending Oct. IA, 1882,
was as follows:
STATISTICS.
featured, 448; average daily expense,
$284O; syrup manufactured, $3.50 gallons;
gallons of juice for gallon of syrup, liz;
average yield per acre, LAG 23-112 gallons;
average per ton of cane, IA 1924 gal
Ions; total expense, $780,; average daily
product, 344 14-19 gallons; cost of making
per gallon, 81 cents: price paid per ton
per acre, $3.50; profit on cane bought by
the ton, $3.50; expense for growing one
acre, $11.52; topping corn per acre, $1.73;
cutting and winrowing, SIPS; hauling
cane to mill per mill per acre, $3.50; cost
of making lac 23-112 gallons at 81 cents
per gallon, $12.06; total cost of one acre,
$29.06. As far as the ground was meas
ured it averaged ten tons per acre. There
were AS tons at $3.50, costing $1,120.
The total cost of product and manufacture
ing was $1,659.50; the amount of syrup pro-
duced amounted to $3,6O2.50, leaving
profit on nineteen days work of $1,942.90.
Mr.. King detailed another experiment
where the number of acres wasss about the
same, but the cane was on poorer land
The yield of cane was 2S6 tons and from
this 3,O81 gallons of syrup was made, at
profit of $662.6O, to which should be added
$500 pounds of seed worth 1870.
Mr.. Kenny enlarged on the best methods
of cutting and piling. He had practiced
for seventeen years with good results, the
piling of the cane in piles of
not less than sixty-four hills in
a pile, crossing up the butts and
spreading the tops. Cane should not be
exposed to freeze after it is ripe. The
cane industry is looking up, and though
We have had the coolest season for years,
progress has been made, and our syrups
are more and more sought after. think