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

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which come in September. That climate
requires an early variety, which can be
worked up rapidly. But many of their
men have made large amounts of money.
Hon. S. H. Keenan,, a'friend of mine, is
making 10000 or $4,000 gallons of syrup
and selling it there at go or 70 cents
gallon.
SORGHUM THE SUGAR KING.
No rlant in the world can, in my judg-
ment, compete with sorghum as sugar
plant, first, on account Of its hardness,
and second, on account of its easy cult.
walton. For any farmer can plough du-
ring winter or early spring with a cheap
span of mules or horses his forty or sixty
acres of ground, harrow it, drill it with
his improved double cultiyators, ::cultivate
it just as be does corn, and he has raised
that crop without help. Whether he is
black man or white ms n he is capable Of
producing this. And, gentlemen, this
seed which is produced upon that will
pay the entire cost of the cultivation. To
every ton of cane there are two bushels
of seed, and the: average production in
Kansas and New Jersey, where this same
diffusion process has been practiced, is al
least twelve tons of cane to the acre and
two bushels of seed to the ton. What
other plant can compete with it? Will
the Southern sugar cane2 1t has no
such compensating returns.
This seed is just as good for feeding
horses, cattle, sheep, swine and poultry as
Indian corn. Indeed, the Philadelphia
dairymen pay TO the Rio Glande sugar
men ten cents more for the seed of sugar
cane than for Indian corn. They feed
their horses entirely upon sorghum With
the addition of little bran. They fatten
upon it the finest hogs I have ever seen,
and their swine command premium in
the markets. There is no better food for
sheep or cattle. tits probably better to
have it run through q roller or grinder
and to have some bran mixed with it.
But say it is equal to the Indian corn,
and produces about the same number
of bushels to the acre, and the seed will
pay the cost of cultivation.
THE LOUISIANA SUGAR.
Ifauy of you have visited the Louis
lana sugar plantations you know what a
slow, tedious job it is to raise cane there,
and how much help it requires. Here
no such skill is required. Here We
have a climate where man can work
longer and do more; we have land that
is cheaper and the time is surely coming
gentlemen, when in every neighborhood
you will have your sugar mills as in the
wheat growing States you have your
Touring mills. The time is coming
when you will have your sugar factories
Just as you have your cotton gius
when white man aud black man can raise
their cane, haul it to the factory, have
it converted into sugar, get as they do in
Kansas from 50 to So ton cut right
from the field, leaves and all, cash
every Saturday. night, the sugar manu-
facturer converting it, and making good
deal more money than the farmer does
[Applause.
Here is an opportunity fer capital to
enter and make money. Take a ton Of
cane and see what it produces. 1t pro.
duces 100 pounds Of sugar the first work.
ing; ifthere is another reboiling it pro-
duces 20 pounds more-120 pounds Of
sugar. What is that worth? What are
you paying for sugar now' For the
quality produced I undertake to say yor
will pay 8 cents, but say 6 cents. That
is s6 for the frat run, 81 20 for the sec
ond-$7.2O. Then there are two bushels
of seed to every ton of cane, worth aS
much as corn, which ] presume to bt
worth 50 cents; that is 81 more, making
$500. Then there are at least ten gal
Ions of moIasses, worth So 5000
Yet the manufactures has paid but S2.6(
for that from which he gots his 5000
Can anything be more profitable thar
that? 1t tsppears to me that there eau
rot.
RESULT OF THE EXPERIMENT.
L wish to impress upon your miud'
this point: that in these experiences
which have been conducted there have
been no mistakes. Last year Col. Ed
ward H. Cunningham, Of Texas, who il
raising about 1000 acres of Southern
sugar cane, having seen how successful
our experiments were, wrote to me afte
reading an interview with the Associated
Press reporter, to ask if all I had stated
was true. I replied that the best va!
to determine that was to 60 to For
Scott and examine for himself, see th'
cane cut in the field, the stalks :.rul
through the mill, the sugar produced
measured aud weighed, and then decid'
for himself. In addition I advised hin
to take along with him the best suga
expert be could find in Louisiana. 81
followed my advice, and went there TO
two weeks, taking his sugar expert. Wit
remained month. He went home per
fectly convinced that that was the tru'
system, saying he could not afford to rur
The old process any longer. He has tLi'
year put in complete battery Of CELL
aud planted 700 acres of sorghum in ad
ditioDal to his sugar cane, thus nearly
doubling the value of his plant, increasing
the number of daysin which he works