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

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EARLY AMBER CANE. FOR sIRUP.
Its Valne rs q Forage-More Ex.
Fermentation Needed.
Editor Soutaern G.l.:vator end D!gie
Farmer::
Three years ago the United States
Commissioner of Agriculture sent me
for trial three pounds of Early Am
ber cane seed. drilled it in rows
four feet spart, in a moderately fer
hized sandy loam. The yield in
ssed and forage convinced me that
Che plant would prove invaluable as
a forage crop. The past season I
tested it, both for sirup and forage.
On nineteen.twentieths Of an acre /
planted watermelons eight feet apart.
As soon as the melons began to run
] eowed Amber seed, two feet in the
drill, between the melon rows, run.
ming east to west. The soil isassndy
loan Cleared last February rather
sterile, being portion Of what Is
known as the Little Sand Hills" I
was using cotton seed hulls as bed
ding for my horses. These hulls ab-
sorbed the liquid manure, the valuable
properties OF which are better known,
] suspect, than appreciated by ma
jority OF our farmers. mean sim.
ply to say that VS. make 20 general
systematic effort to save and utilize
this portion of the weddings in COW
lots and stables. This we'll rotted
manure was applied, with q 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 thus OBJ
tanned vas hoed and ploughed once.
The Amber was planted about the 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 airup. Await
ing an opportunity to have the cane
ground, ! let it stand until the last Of
the month just mentioned. This
operated to lessen the yield in sirup.
The results obtained were ful! 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 (nlneteen.twentieths) OF an acre,
simultaneously. The same tract man.
ured as for cotton, and given to cane
alone, would have produced not lesa
than seventy.ive gallons of sirup and
thirty.fve bushels ofaeed. 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 Nj. F. A. Timberlake,
prominent citizen Of Augusta, who
has farm on the Georgia Railroad
near Groyetown, 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
fset; using a fertilizer Of his own
manuiactuee-largely dissolved bone.
Result: One hundred gallons Of
si-up and fifty bushels Of seed per
acre. he has experienced MOI diff
Guilty in placing the strip at so cents
a gallon per barrel. The Kansas
Orange stalk is much larger than that
Of the Amber. NJ. T. 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 hazsrding too much to say
that not one.fourth of the sirups now
on our markets are the product OF
naught else than starch. otherwise
called glucose2 ! think not. How
necessary is it, then, that our people
should be encouraged to make their
own sirup. I belive that with proper
culture, without restricting planters
to low lands, Early Amber will be
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.
It is known that starcn is one of the
chief constituents of food. Analyses
made of corn and oats, so generally
used in the South in feeding stock.
aud Of Early Amber seed give tie
following result: Corn, albuninoids,
5.s4, starch. 1927; oats, albuminoids,
l5.7, starch, 32.2; Early Amber,
slbuminoids, 4.55. starch, 6S.55. The
analysis given Of corn wsa made by
the Department at Washington of
improved Prolific" It will be OBJ
served that on this basis Amber seed