The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-17
SCUM the Sugar King.

SCUM the Sugar King.
Commiser Of Agriculture Norman j.
Colman. speech in South Carolina some
time ago,,;
No plan theworld can, in my judg-
mept come with sorghum as sugar
plant, flrsA account OF its hardness, and
second, on corat of its easy cultivation.
For any fner IAN plow during winter or
early sprinwit cheap span Of mules or
horses his ftyr fifty or sixty acres of
ground. hao1t, drill it with his improved
double cultyavs, cultivate it just as he
does corn, aid has raised that crop with
ont help. Vhier he is black man or II
white man. Incapable OF producing this
And. gentlendhe seed which is produced
uuop that willy the entire cost of cult
walton. To ey ton of cane there are two
bushels of seeand the average production
in Kansas az New Jersey, where this
same diffusiorocess has been practiced, is
at least twelIons of cane to the acre and
two bushels oeed to the ton. What other
pIant can co,ete with it3 Will the south
ern sugar cat 1t has no such compensat-
ing returns.
This seedi just as good for feeding
horses, cattI sheep, swine and poultry rs
Indian co, Indeed, the Philadelphia
dairymen p'to the Rio Grande sugar men
10 cents md for the seed of sugar cane
than for Iiian corn. They feed their
horses entry upon sorghum, with tho ad-
dition of tile bran. They fatten upon il
the finesthos have ever seen, and their
swine conmnd premium in the markets.
There is 10 bitter food for sheep or cattle.
1t is prohbl better to have it run through
a roller o grinder and to have some bran
mixed win it But say it is equal to the
Indian con, and produces about the same
will pay TO cost Of cultivation.
If anyt you have visited the Louisiana
sugar plarations you know what a slow,
tedious jo it S to raise cane there, and
how nuohielp it requires. Here no such
skill is required. Here we have a climate
where mancan work longer and do more;
we have lah th.t is cheaper, and the time
is surely coming gentlemen, when in every
you viii have your sugar
mills as in he wheatgro owing states you
have your fburilg mills. Tia time 10 com
ing when yoI vii have your sugar factories
Just as you nav, your cotton gins; when
white man eld back man oan rains their
cane, haul the factory, have 1t converted
into sugar, ret asthey do In Kansas from o.
10 So d ton ur ritht from the feld, leaves
md all, cish every Saturday night, tho
,ugar manufacturer converting it, and
making good del more money than the
armer does
Here is ar opportunity for capital to enter
md make money. Take u ton Of cane and
ee what it produces. 1t produces 100
,ounds of sugar the first working; IL there
J another reboiling it produces 20 pounds
nore-1O pounds Of sugar. What il that
yorth? What are you paying for sugar
iowa Fbr the quality produced l under
axe to say you will pay cents, but say 6
snts. That is So for the first run, 81 20 for
ne secoid-$7 90 Then there are two
ushels OF seed to every ton of cane, worth
5 much IS corn, which 1 presume to be
'orth 50 cents; that is 81 more, making
8 20. Then there are at least ten gallons
f molassee, worth 80 more-S10 20. Yet
10 manufacturer has paid but 50 SO for
lat from which he gets his $40 90. Can
lything be more profitable than that's 1t
ppears to me that there cannot.