Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-03

your opiuion?'questioned the press man
sat will always be more profitable and
certain than cotton. OF course, I dor,t
suppose it would take the place of cot
ton entirely, but would be a powerful
auxiliary to the farmer in helping him Ia
diversity his crops. Sorghum hitherto
| has
| NOT BEEN RAISED FOR SUGAR.
think one man could cultivate verv
readily twenty-five to thirty acres cf
sorghum, as Il would be easy wcrk With
the improved agricultural implements
now in use, such as cotton cultivators.
Patting the yield AZ $50 pounds
where two crops year can
be raised, and ten tons TO the acre, it
would be $40 for the first crop and the
same for the second. Then sgain the
selling Of the Eeed snd fodder would pay
for the work, as it now goes for ordinary
J feed, Just competing with corn. They
raise twenty-five to thirty bushels an
acre each crop, and one bushel OF sor-
ghum seed is equal to bushel Of corn
IN NUTRITIyE QUALITIES.
The by products Of sorghum too are
very valuable. There is no question but
that the pulp which results will
make fine paper and can be prepared to
! bear shipment. The profits arising
from the cultivation Of sorghum for sugar
are undoubtedly great, and in Kansas the
farmers sre perfectly wild. Although
they are only getting one crop year,
they get 81 ton for the Gaze that goes
to the fEctory, and then there Is the seed
and fodder. They claim they make more
money than
IN ANY OTHER BUSINESS,
and are sill anxious to contribute 10 put
in sorghum for next year"
care there shy patents On the difu-
sion process?"
mo; 1.-the diffusion process has been
spilled for some years to beet
sugars, and in Demorara it is used
successfully on tropical cane.
The sore hum experiment has been made
under the supervision OF Professor Wiley,
chief chemist of the Agricultural Depart
mert at Washington, and it has been at
tended with entire success beyond the
expectation of every one."
sin the event Of a reduction CT the
tariff would that naturally affect the
success as profitable undertaking."
Undoubtedly. 1 think any modincs-
tion of the tariff would have
VERY SERIOUS EFFECT
on sorghum. 1t will have the effect Of
keeping capitalists from taking hold Of
it. This continued meddling of the
tariff has retarded Texas for
the past eight or ten
years, especially in the development
Of sugar. Capitalists were 10th 10 take
hold Of it for they did not know when the
tariff might be removed. Il the tariff Is
allowed to remain, 1 have no doubt that
sorghum and sugar making will become 8
grand factor of prosperity in Texas.
think that this prospect for the making Of
sugar from sorghum ought to make every
farmer in the country
PROTECTIoNIsT.
1t will be largely to the interest Of every
one to make our own sugars, that we
may keep the money at home without
sending it to for ign countries "
As any modification of the TIES
would menace the future szMsrz
eff sorghum, think it incumbent 80
agricultural community and the = sl ea, 10 y
generally to exercise pressure olrs RENE
Legislators, and it would DE s polite sIep
for Congressman to sec il they had not
better mend their fences in the sorghum
districts. l think every fHrmer in the
country
SHOULD ENLIGHTEN HIMSELF
on the subject Of protection and be ener-
gelic in getting proper LEI isl ition on the
matter to protect his int, rests. It will
afford me pleasure after I have tried the
experiment on my plantation to give
the farmers the advantage OF
my experience. have first
class chemist to supervise the
taking of OF the crop, and he will make
numerous analyses of the different vsrie-
ties Of cane to ascertain from which the
best results are to be obtained, SO that in
future We can 60 at it inteiligently.