The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1883-04-12


A. A. Denton, OF Bavaria, called ut
our Office, and in converting on the
sugar business stated some items
which may interest some 0f our reed-
ers- The Bavaria Syrup Works made
q fair run for the first season. They
had the usual difficulties with new
machinery and had defective and in
complete apparatus and no one en-
ployed had ever seen a Power mill
Il. 600 gallons of their syrup tested 40
per cent. OF sugar, or At pounds to the
gallon-the balance was not a. high
per cent. Most Of the imported Cuba
Isclasses tests under so per cent, il
rarely reaches 81. Corn syrups have
no cane sugar, mixed syrups but a
email per cent They have two tons
Of sugar and melado in their syrup
cistern which they will ship to q sugar
company to refine. Their syrup was
crude and deficient in some respects,
owing to causes which may be svoid-
ed. Intelligent persons do not expect
best results the first season In any
line Of business; unintelligent persons
do. Factories usually have goeater
and better products the second season
and are likely to do still better the
next They have sold their syrup at
. fair average margin over cost and
will plant $50 acres more cane than
they intended. They expect to make
semi-syrup for q sugar company, for
which they will receive Q cent de-
gree, and also to make ten thousand
gallons, finished, for local trade which
they can afford to sell for less than
merchants expect to pay. They had
liberal rates and also . light crop Of
cane, and still pay twice as much
freight per acre as any other crop In
the State. They begin In . cheap
way on crude syrup and semi-syrup
and as the business DEVELOPS hope to
put i'm sugar machinery. When com
plete the works will cost so, 600 and
have an easy average capacity for two
tons Of sugar and three tons Of molasses
per day. Kansas last season for the first
timeexported large quantities ofsyrup
1t will soon export sugar. One
sugar company invested $75, 600 last
season and will invest as much more
this season. Refineries are planned
for crude syrup and as capital and
science are taking an interest In sor-
ghum it is possible the business may
become more respectable. Some who
have money and some who assume to
have money assume that it Is not. but
II works its way. The Bavaria Syrup
Works saved 600 bushels of cane seed.
Most of this is being sold to stOckmen
for forage planting between Salina
and Ellis. Thousands of acres of cane
will be planted in Western Kansas
for feed. Those who have fed it like
it. Mr.. Hall, Of Bavaria, planted one
acre for feed. He will plant twenty.
Mr.. Porter sowed five acres, the next
season eleven: he will plant thirty
Acres for cattle. Mr.. Case plants Hon
duras. the largest variety. stalks being
often four or five inches around at butt
He says sheep like large stalks. The
Eden Farm will plant 80 bushels of
cane seed for cattle. Mr.. Wellington
sows 50 bushels for sheep. A farmer
who planted amber cane near his hog
corral May LIST and fed II to his hogs,
August LIST will do SO again. There
are varieties that give Is to 30 bushels
of seed and 6 to II tons of cane to the
acre, according TO season and chance.
The seed Is grain. Those who care to
send postage can have samples of cane
seed, of crushed seed for feed and of
cane seed -four, which is similar TO
buckwheat -four. In some Of the east
ern states they bury sorghum In pits
or silos and make sauer kraut for their
stock. The loud talking they do takes
Kansas mans breath. In our eli.
mate the canes dry up sweet retaining
greater value than i'm eastern states.