Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-01
SUGAR FROM SORGHUM.
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Continued from First PGge.
ana save TWO crops a year, aversgin
probably from 1000 to 1900 pounds O
sugar TO the acre from each crop. The
in the country north Of that latitude, be
tween line from Northern Kentucky an
West Virgins, think they can save
AT LEAST ONE CROP
successfully, and my impression IL that
the tariff duties are not interfered wit
that in five or six years the sorghum bel
of country in connection with the tropica
country will be supplying 81
the sugars the United State
would consume, and these $4,000 0Ot
now being psid for foreign sugaIs Will al
be kept st home. think it VIII place thu
whole of the agricultural portion Of ou
country in more prosperous and bet
ter financial condition than they have
ever been. They can plant less cottor
and get their money earlier from sugar
than they could from cotton, and by hav
ing
DIVERSIFIED CROPS,
of course 1t will make it more certain
that the farmer will make money. The
sorghum plant is $ very hsrdy one aud
thrives well, especially ID countries more
or less subject to drouth. There
is no plant know of now
cultivated that will stand the drouth that
sorghum will. OF course in the event of
the sugar industry in Texas becoming
general the success Of 1t would r, quire
capital so these sugar refineries or fsc-
tories would have to be worked
ON THE CENTRAL SYSTEM,
as It were, by the farmers taking stock in
them, or by outside parties becoming
stockholders and then buying the cane
from the farmers by the ton, paying for It
in so much sugar or in money, Just as
they may contract"
"Would sugar making be more profit.
able and safer to cultivate than cotton, in
your opinion?"questioned the press mar.
SIT will always be more profitable and
certain than cotton. OF course, 1 don't
suppose 1t would take the place of cot
ton entirely, but would be a powerful
auxiliary to the farmer In helping him to
diversity his crops. Sorghum hitherto
las
NOT EEBN RAISED FOR SUGAR.
think one man could cultivate very
,eadily twenty-five to thirty acres Of
sorghum, as it would be easy work with
he improved agricultural implements
low in uss, such rs cotton cultivators.
Putting the yield at $50 pounds
% ton in this country
where two crops year can
re raised, and ten tons to the acre, it
would be SIS for the first crop and the
anne for the second. Then again the |
elliDg of the seed and fodder would pay
or the work, as it now goes for ordinary |
eed, just competing with corn. They |
aise twenty-five to thirty bushels an |
ere each crop, and one bushel of sor-
hum seed is equal to bushel of corn
IN NUTRITIvE QUALITIES.
The by products Of sorghum too are
cry valuable. There is no question but
hat the pulp which results will
make fine paper and can be prepared to
ear shipment. The profits arising
rom the cultivation of sorghum for sugsr
re undoubtedly great, and in Kansas the
lrmers are perfectly wild. Although
hey are only getting one crop a year,
hey get 81 ton for the cane that goes
D the factory, and then there is the seed
nd fodder. They claim they make more
honey than
II ANY OTHER BUSINESS,
nd are all anxious to contribute to put
/ sorghum for next year."
care there any patents on the difu-
ion process?"
mo; 1.-the diffusion process has been
pplied for some years TO beet |
ugers, and in Democrats it is used
On tropical cane.
he sorghum experiment has been made
nder the-supervision of Professor Wiley,
hiet chemist Of the Agricultural Depart
lent at Washington, and it has been at
ended with entire success beyond the
expectation of every one."
"Iu the event Of reduction Of the
arif would that naturally affect the
uccess as a profitable undertakings"
Undoubtedly. 1 think any modit1ca-
ion of the tariff would have
VERY SERIOUS EFFECT
n sorghum. 1t will have the effect of
eeping capitalists from taking hold of
/ This continued meddling OF the
arif has retarded Texas for
he past eight or ten
ears, especially in the development
1 sugar. Capitalists were 10th to take
Olu VI ~ AO1 bASy uAb NV huON WuCu buS
arif might be removed II the tariff is
flowed to remsin, 1 have no doubt that
ergnum and sugar making will become 3
rand factor of prosperity in Texas. 1
hink that this prospect for the making OF
ugar from sorghum ought to make every
srmer in the country
A PRoTECTIoNIsT.
{ will be largely to the interest OF every |
ne to make cur own sugars, that we |
nay keep the money at home without |
ending it to for ign countries. |
As any modification Of the tariff |
you'd menacs the future success
II sorghum, think 1t incumbent on the |
agricultural community and the people |
to exercise pressure on thelr
legislators, and it would be polite step
or Congressman to see il they had not
,etter mend their fences in the sorghum
districts. think every farmer in the
country
SHOULD ENLIGHTEN HIMSELF
IN the subject Of protection and be ener-
,etic in getting proper legislation on the
natter to protect his interests. 1. will