The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-10-23
CANE CULTIVATION.
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The ACCESSIBILITY of Introducing 1t Into tn
Northern States.

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Northern States.
It is moro than likely. that in the
years to come the Northern farmers
will find it to their interest to cultivate
enough cane at least to supply, their
own household necessities with strip
and do with it as they now and always
have done with wheat, take their grist
to the mill. The same arguments
(which are employedto show the impro-
priety if not the impossibility, of every
woman beng her dairymaid and sue
cessfuhy competing with the factory sys-
item may be employed here, and with
even more force; for there are fewer
skilled strip makers than butter
makers. and the machinery is much
more costly. It is an easy matter for
one TO figure on the quantity7of cane
necessary for his purpose and thus lay
in his years supply at little cost; then
will the central factory OF mill be able
to grind up for fifty with one set of ma
chinery instead of the fifty doing it for
themselves, and with a very much bet
ter chance of securing a well made ar
ticle.. gra r
Nor is this the only outlook for the
successful prosecution of the Northern
cane industry, for if the farmer can
grow few acres for his own use he
can grow more for sale to the factory.
Stripped and topped cane usually sells
for about $3.50 per ton at the mill. An
acre of cane will produce ten to fifteen
tons, and as we'll half a ton or more
of good dry fodder and from fifteen. to
thirty bushels of seed of an equal value
for feeding purposes with. corn. The
crop is cultivated precisely as is corn
and it is very generally conceded that
the seed and fodder are equal in value
to the cost of putting in and harvesting
the crop, thus leaving the cane at the
mill net profit. If then ten tons are
produced at $3.50 per ton, we have
net profit of twenty-five dollars to the
acre. Those who have experimental
with cane cultivation will report that
with proper attention, or that usually
given to corn, ten tons may be made as
easily as twenty bushels of corn to the
acre.
The New Orleans Sugar Bowl and
Farmer refers to this matter as regards
the farmers of the South with the Rib
bon cane, and writes as follows:
We are pleased to learn that the low
price of sugar has not altogether dispir-
tied small planters, who sell their cane
by the ton, nor the buyers thereof. A
large quantity of cane is this season
being cultivated in that manner, and
we learn that as much as four dollars
per ton is now being offered for it. There
is fair margin of profit in cane at that
price, with present low prices-of sup
plies of all kinds, and we believe an
other year will see more cane cultivated
for central factories than ever hitherto
One of our valued correspondents
thus writes us On this subject:
see no hope for small planters, ex-
cept they Become willing to sell their
cane 10 the larger and better factories.
So many radical changes are necessary
to make such programme general,
and remunerative to both parties, that
l fear that it viii end in the former
class either being driven from their
lands or turning to other and less fas-
cinating lines OF agriculture.
We are glad to know that our friend S
fears are groundless. Those who are
unable to make the necessary improve
ments still realize that there is more
money in cane than in any other crop,
in the long run, where they can find
purchasers for their cane, and they will
only too gladly sell where offered a fair
price rather than lose by defective
mills. CotmdD'S Rural World.