The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-09-13

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afraid of q break. If they break their
mills the working season is delayed per-
haps two or three weeks or more; for
they must be sent to the foundry to be
repaired. They do not, therefore. crush
out all the juice that is in the cane. l
have frequently taken it up, wrung it,
and seen the rich drops of juice dripping
from it in streams. They say they cannot
afford to exhaust it of this juice for fear of
breaking their mills.
What is more pleasant than all, gentle
men, with our system as carried on at
Fort Scott, we obtained, from six carloads
of cane sent to us by. Edward J. Gay, 70
pounds more per ton than anybody pre-.
dicted we could. They say that they
cannot afford to run their old system, OBJ.
tanning the above small amounts; some
other system is to be adopted, and they
say if this system of diffusion holds out
they can laugh at the tariff. They can
make sugar there SO cheaply, as they
gradually. rid themselves of their old
mills, that if the Government is deter.
mined to deprive them of this protection
they can still make sugar and make it
prohtably.
LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP.
recommend that none ofyou fmmedi.
ately 20 to making sugar. presume
that could have induced the establish.
ment of numbers of factories this year,
had I thought proper to do so. But
what gentleman of good common sense
would undertake to run any manufactur.
ing establishment without either under
standing it thoroughly himself OF
obtaining an expert to manage it fol
him ? Skill is required, and one Of the
first things We need is school for instruc
tiop. We ought to have school in every
State TO teach men how to make sugar by
this new process, to qualify them to run
these factories, to educate them in the
business, and then we shall see oul
sugar factories established everywhere
throughout the country. Every neigh
borhood can do it. Farmers can do it.
Ofcourse, under this process, which We
have now, to establish good plant would
cost some s25, 1000 or 100000. But I an
carrying on experiments in New Jersey
this year with much simpler plan
costing from $1,000 to $1,000, Last yeal
in New Jersey one acre of ground, care
fully measured by Mr.. Hughes, produced
i, $40 pounds of sugar. You will fine
that in our agricultural reports, and
will say that if those who are specially
interested in studying this matter vii
write to me for the department of sgri
culture reports, where all of this ha'
been laid before the public, l shall b
very happy to send it to them.
THE IMPORTANCE OF THE BUSINESS.
The importance of this new industry t
the American people I wish to impress
upon you very strongly if I can. 1oI
know something about the over.produc
tion of farm products that is going on il
this country. You know that if tber'
was not 80 much cotton produced ]
would bring better price, if there va
not SO much wheat produced it wouls
not be selling at so or 60 cents bushel
. | have lately been through Dakota
Montana and Manitoba, and laDguag
will not enable me to describe to you tn
extent of that country. Day after day
rode through the richest prairie lands
ever saw they seemed to me limitles
in extent. Itwas like going out into tn
great Atlantic Ocean with boundles
expanse upon every side of you. LAM
can be taken there as homestead
Emigrants are docking and living ther
in houses, tents and cabins of every con
ceivable kind.
If ground is ploughed this summer an
next summer it will produce thirt
bushels of corn to the acre. Some of th
syndicstes formed in the East cultivat
10000 or 10000 acres OF wheat. 1t
true they have rigorous climate i
winter, but they sow wheat in Apri
harvest in August and thrash in Septem
Der, and in October it is on the way t
the Eastern market, and they sell ou
and 90 to their homes in the Eas
Everything is conducted on those hug
farms with military precision. The
have the best horses and mules, who al
up every morning at 5 o'clock, the horse
and mules are curried and fed, the harnef
is put on them by 6 o'clock they 81
through breakfast and 60 out and wor
with gang Of fifty or sixty horses an
ploughs.
Nov, the average American farme
cannot afford to produce wheat in com
petition with such labor and organizatio
as that in possession Of such land as tsa
How is it with other products :? How ha
the average farmer succeeded lately?
good many of them within my knowledg
have been losing money. Pork has bee
selling in Missouri and Kansas at tbre
cents a pound, corn at fifteen cents
bushel when they have good crop
There is no money to be made in tha
We have got 10 look to some other croT
MAKE WHAT YOU CONSUME.
This nation ought to produce every
thing which is consumed here, ifit
adapted to its production. We ougt
not to be sending our hard earne
moneys off to enrich the laborers an
proprietor of other nations. We want