Wichita eagle., 1888-12-12

OF ii crop.
1t was asked if it would not be a repudi-
alton of debts already contracted.
a. B. Moore, Of Kingman, said
the meeting was to consider
questions relating to farmers. He argued
in favor of the resolution. He thought it
not desirable TO advertise Kansas as a
warm country, but for two years farmers
in western Kansas had suffered.
Mr. Williams arrived here in
defense of the farmers. Nothing in the
resolution against the many loans from
any state. All the farmers ask IS al ex-
tension of time.
John NJ Ferguson-The resolution Of
ferred is merely instructions asking a REM
edy. Why should the farmers not ask for
an extension of time?
Gen. Eggleston-The only part l OBJ
jected to was the advertising part.
The resolutions passed by securing a
! unanimous vote.
1t was moved to change the order OF bus
iness, allowing Judge Parkinson to speak
at night and adjourn at p. M. to go to the
packing house. The motion lest and then
were calls for Parkinson.
There was cutie little discussion as to
whether Or not Judge Parkipson's address
should be delivered in the afternoon or at
night, as many wanted to visit the great
Dold Packing house and also wanted TO
hear the Judge. It was finally decided
! that the judge should speak i'll the after
noon and that after his address as many
AS could not wait until this morning at
o'clock to visit the Dold's, could leave at
1 o'clock after Judge Parkinson had con-
cluded his talk.
JUDGE PARKINs0N'S REMARKS.
The chairman next introduced Judge
Parkinson, who stated.that he had notcome
/ over here to make set speech and had
none prepared. He only intended Ito give
| them little talk" and began by saying
! that only few weeks ago he had
attended another convention in this city
which had been called for the purpose of
discussing the opening OF Oklahoma. The
present convention, however, he consider
| ed of far greater Importance in as much as
| it did not contemplate the opening of new
homes but the improvement and develop
ment of the homes already started. This
| is one of the most important conventions
ever held in the state and he hoped all
would go home better equipped for bat
Ting with the elements. One object OF
this convention is to talk over and con-
drought and laughs at hot winds and
chinch bugs Ii this can be made profit
able why not adopt it? There are three
| things never failed to raise. | could al
ways raise nice crop of cookie burrs and
they stack to me like brother. Sunfiow-
ers We're another good crop and l had
always supposed that some fellow would
find way to utdiZe these plants.
Then there was sorghum that | could
always raise, as no other person utilized
it, and have made myself quite crank.
1t has never Deen known to have been any
thing akin to failure. l am told that
sorghum f1ourishes well in western Kan
sas. tt a. information may have been
started by the Wichita Real Estate bureau,
but have experimental on some samples
from the western part of the state and
found them rich in sugar.
Sorghum can be raised with very great
degree of certainty wherever you are try
ing to raise corn and mlllet. But 1t is only
as a sugar plant that desire to discuss 1t.
You all know OF the efforts ana the fall-
ures to perfect this industry. There have
been large number of failures in Kansas.
There was large plant at Sterling, an
other at Hutchinson and L built
one at Ottawa, They were all
failures and had to be abandoned. 1t Is
not a question of whether 1t will produce
sugar but whether it will produce divi
That is the question.
OLD METHODS BY PRESSURE.
Under the old methods of extracting the
saccharine by pressure. believe in more
pressure And I believed in more work
and more grit and more hang on" So |
got a 150-horse power engine which. as the
maker said, was warranted to extract
Juice from hoop-poles, but / found that I
got out less of the juice than the "horse
mills did, because it took so much thicker
bundles of cane than they did that the
Juice did not get out. In the laboratory
they could do a little better because they
only pressed one stalk or so at time. The
best we could do was to get out about fifty
per cent of the juice in the
cane by pressure Then in the
process of ''defecation" or boiling and
skimming in off, we lost from to Is per
cent of the rest.
TWO SETS OF CRUsHERs.
brought the Hutchinson rollers, very
heavy ones, over to Ottawa and set them
in front of those in our mill. Well, we
got little more juice, bnt also got more
impurities which gave US more trouble in
defecation and the best we could get was
50 per cent. The thing had to be aban-
doned It was out of the question to make
the juice while ten per more of that was
lost il defecation.
INTERESTING THE GOVERNMENT.
Efforts had been made by the depart
ment in Washington with a little hand
affair, which were somewhat better,
because they worked on so small
scale. I do not wish to
be considered guilty of egotism,
when ! say was instrumental in getting
the government TO take the matter up. |
interested Senator Plumb and to interest
him means to get about what you want or
rather what he wants DR.. Loring, then
the commissioner of agriculture, had
grown cold 20 sorghum, If indeed he had
ever felt warm towards il and he said that
there was no more appropriation needed.
But Senator Plumb got S50.GOo appropri-
ated.
Here the speaker cited the fact: that they
found beet sugar manufacturers in Europe
had experienced the same difficulties with
the pressure process that he had with sor-
ghum, and after grading up the plant,
from one OF little saccharine quality it has
become the greatest producer OF snCar.
They had been compelled to slice" or cut
up the beets and extract the sacchsrlue by
what is known As the diffusion process"
This plan Of operation was then decided
upon for the sorghum in this country.
TIE DIFFUSION PROCESS.
The government had some diffusion bat
teries or large tanks built for receiving the
chips or sliced cane. Bar for some rea-
son he could never understand, the gov
erument built them up-ssde-down. It was
no trouble to I'll the vessels full, bat as
they only had little openings at the side,
it took two hours % empty one. BY the
time we got one emptied there was vinegar
in the next one and another failure was
credited 20 sorghum. Sorghum was al
wavs blamed with ali failures. After that
I expected and feit in awe OF the fool