Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1883-02-01
EARLY AMBER CANE. FOR sIRUP.

EARLY AMBER CANE FOR sIRUP.
gts Valne as q Forage-More Ex.
peFinentaGi0n Needed
EGitor &oahern Gs!.:uutor end Di.rie
Farmer:
Three years ago the United States
Commissioner of Agriculture sent me
fer trial three pounds of Early Am
ber cane seed. Thrilled it in rows
four feet spart, in a moderately fer
siized sandy loan. The yield in
ssed and forage convinced me that
ths plant would prove invaluable as
a forage crop. The past season I
tested it, both for sirup and forage.
On niueteen-twentieths OF an acre I
planted watermelons eight feet apart.
Az soon as the melons began to run
I soWed Amber seed, two feet in the
drill, between the melon rows, run.
ming east to west. The soilisa sandy
loan Cleared last February rather
sterile, being a portion Of what Is
known as the Little Sand Hills." I
was using cotton seed hulls as q bed
ding for nay horses. These hulls ab-
sorbed the liquid manure, the valuable
properties o, which are better known,
I suspect. than appreciated by me-
iority OF our farmers. I mean SIM
ply to say that we make 20 general
systematic effort to save and utilize
this portion of the voidings il cow
lots and stables. This we'll rotted
manure was applied, with 8 moder-
ately liberal hand, to the hills, and
ten to twelve seed planted in each of
she latter. Subsequently the growth
was thinned out, leaving four to FIVE
stalks to hill. The stand thua OBJ
tanned was hoed and ploughed once.
The Amber was planted aboutthe 9th
Of May. It grew of nicely, and by
the 10th Of August was ready to be
stripped and topped. I determined
to test this plant for sirup. Await.
ing an opportunity to have the cane
ground, I let it stand until the last Of
the month just mentioned. This
operated to lessen the yield in sirup.
The results obtained were full crop
Of fine melons, two hundred pounds
OF seed, one hundred pounds OF fodder
and fifteen gallons of golden sirup.
Be it remembered that the cane
and melons were grown on this frac-
ton (nipeteen.twentieths) OF sn acre,
simultaneously. The same tract man
ured as for cotton, and given to ane
alone, would have produced not lesa
than seventy.6vs gallons of sirup and
thirty.6ve bushels ofseed. The sirup
Is far superior to the adulterated
article with which our markets are
flooded, and readily commands fifty
cents gallon, per barrel.
More on this branch of the subject:
I induced Mr.. F. a. Timberlake, a
prominent citizen Of Augusta, who
has farm on the Georgia Railroad
near Grovetown. to Join me in making
the experiments herein described.
On land somewhat better than nine,
AR. T. planted sight acres in cane
half Amber, half Kansas Orange.
The latter was recommended as the
best for sirup-the former for forage.
He planted in hills two feet by four
feet; using a fertilizer Of his own
manulactuis-largely dissolved bone.
Result One hundred gallons OF
s;-up and fifty bushels Of seed per
acre. he has experienced no. diff
Guilty in placing the slrup at 80 cents
a gallon per barrel. The Kansas
Orange stalk is much larger than that
of the Amber. MT. and the writer
are satisfied that for the purposes Of
sirup and forage, the Amber is pre-
ferable to the Orange in this section.
Is it hazsrdiDg too muck to say
that not one.fourth Of the sirups now
on our markets are the product OF
naught else than starch, otherwise
called glucose? l think not. How
necessary is it, then, that our people
shosld be encouraged to make their
own sirup. 1 belive that with proper
culture, :sithout restricting planters
to low lands, Early Amber will De
found to be more remunerative than
any other cane.
Take the seed: The general yield
is fifty. the average yield not less
than forty bushels per acre. AS q
stock feed, it has no real superior.
1t is known that starch is one of the
chief constituents of food. Analyses
made of corn-and oats, so generally
used in the South in feeding stock.
and Of Early Amber seed give tie
following result: Corn, albunino;ds,
5.64. starch, 1927; oats, albuminoids,
l5.7, starch, 32.2; Early Amber,
albuminoids, ass, starch, 6S.55. The
analysis given Of corn wss made by
the Department at Washington of
Improved Prolific 1t will be Oh.