New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-02-26

| plant the same season, and spoke of the immense
use made of the seed as food by the human family
more persons living on it than on corn and whea'
put together among them 60 600 people OF Ben
| gal, in India, also immense numbers in Asia and IN
South Africa, from which latter country be received
/ forty varieties used there and unknown TO us. Ho
doubts the theory of hybridlzation: among all the
kinds raised in Washington grounds there was no
instance of mixture.
For practical suggestions as to growth ana manu-
facture, DR.. Golfers address also noteworthy.
Suckers are not harmful to syrup. but exceedingly
so in sugar-making, therefore preference should be
given to sorts of which such superfuous growth Is
not characteristic. If cane is thoroughly ripe the
effect of frost upon it is almost nothing; II not ripe
it is uniavorabe. The best way is to work the cane
Immediately after cutting; pressing without strip
ping off the leaves gives more syrup but less sugar.
and makes trouble in defeating; the lower ten
inches of the stalk have much saccharine value con-
trary to prevalent opinion. Detailed experiences of
numerous gro vera who took part in the animated
discussions of the two days session-which was
twice as largely attended that OF last year-were
varied if not contradictory. Some preference was
gwen to Western seed instances were cited OF adj
vantageous sporting il not of naturalization OF tho
plants. One speaker observed best crop results
/" from sandy or light gravely loan in this lsti-
varied opinion and practice all of which gave DR..
Collier good occasion to urge constant personal tests
of the many questions still to be settled. He doubts
If we are yet anywhere near the best methods"
and no, therefore, properly deprecated an attempt,
unnecessarily made to obtain from the meeting an
Endorsement of a particular patented process
There was also timely consideration Of best ways
and means for getting the syrup and sugar upon the
market One suggestion to this end was the forma-
ton of Boards of Trade at central points, and the
need Of striving for uniformity in goods was forci-
bly, presented. Altogether the occasion was slgniil-
cant and encouraging IN the progress OF the new IN
dustry "We can have all the sugar we want II We
take the right course to get It," said Dr. G. c. Cald-
well, and he declared that glucose, while good
enough for beer brewing and for foolish people who
feed on cheap candy 4, not tolerable in legitimate
domestic use Cane sugar, two and one-half times
sueeter than glucose, IS more widely distributed IN
the vegetable world, and the millennial time may
come when we shall adulterate glucose with cane
sugar " In raising sorghum the farmer produces
nothing narcotic or deleerious" said President A.
G. Williams, of Westmoreland; in selling syrup or
sugar he does not deDlete his soil as In
shipping of hay or wheat, or corn, especi-
ally IL he return the bagasse TO the land
from which he took it. The president also pointed
out that what has been done in the State was with
out spur OF legislative bounty and also despite tho
opposition OF General lie Dues successor.
But why, we venture to inquire, should he or any
body else interpOse with broom or scklef II the
rising tide is indeed the Atlantic 1t cannot be swept
back or wed down If it only spring freshet, 1t
will flow itself away. If we can increase the small
fraction Of homegrown sugar to moro than the
present one-elghth of our need; contribute gener-
ousy to the annual forty-fve pounds demanded by
each Of our sweet-oying people; retain for our own
industry n large part IL not all of the half million
dollars which our sugar costs daily, 1t will be obyi
GUS gain in several directions Tho beet was not
always in repute abroad, from practical saccharne
point OF view, and yet to-day two-htths OF the
worlds supply comes from that lowly source. 1t Is
said to have cost Napoleon eighty cents pound TO
make Frances first beet-sugar, IN 1911, and last
year that country stood third-Germany and Hun
gary leadlng-n contribution of the aggregate
$50 600 tons Perhaps people lat least outside
OF California. where, IN Alvarado, notable beet
sugar success Is maintained not humble enough
TO got down TO the back-work Of root-weeding; II
they can secure satisfactory results by the EASIER
upright way of tall sorghum who shall fairly for
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