Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-12


thing be more profitable than that? Itap
pears to me that there cannot.
RESULTS OF THE EXPERIMENTS.
I wish to impress upon your minds thl
point; that in these experiments, Whlcf
have been conducted, there have been M
mistakes. Last year Col. Edward II. Gun
ningham, of Texas, who is raising abou
1000 acres of Southern sugar cane, having
seen how successful our experiments were
wrote to me, after reading an interview
with the Associated Press reporter, to ask
if all / had stated was true. L replied tina
the best way to determine that was to &C
to Fort Scott and examine for himself, see
the cane cut in the field, the stalks rur
through the mill, the sugar produced
measured and weighed, and then decide
for himself In addition, advised him
to take along with him the best sugar eX'
pert he could find in Louisiana. He fol-
lowed my advice, and went there tor two
weeks, taking his sugar expert, VINO re-
mained month. He went home perfect
Iy CONVINCED that that was the true sys.
tenn. saving he could not afford to run the
old process any longer. He has this year
put in a complete battery of cells and
planted out 700 acres of sorghum in addi-
ton to his sugar cane, thus nearly doubling
the value of his plant, increasing the num-
ber of days in which he works, and lncreas-
ing the profits of the plant to very large
extent. -,
This new system of diffusion which
have described succeeds not only with sor-
ghum but equally we'll with the Southern
sugar cane. Last year we carried on eX-
periments in Louisiana on the plantation
of Southern sugar cane planter with the
cane that he selected. 1 left it entirely
with the committee of an association to
determine whose mill should be tired, ana
I believe they chose the mill that had ob-
tained larger per cent. than any other.
While the owner of this mill extracted one
hundred and seventy or one hundred ana
eighty pounds of sugar, the department. OF
agriculture from the same cane got two
hundred and thirty odd pounds to each
ton of cane, and Governor Yarmouth TINS
year said that he could no longer afford to
run the old mill. He has put in system
of diffusion, a battery Of cells, in order not
to waste anything.
| FINE YIELDS FROM THE CANE.
Throughout the WholeStat of Louisiana
the average amount of sugar obtained from
a ton of cane is less than one hundred ana
hounds. And why? Because with their
ponderous mills they are afraid ofa break.
| IF thew break their mills the working sea-
son is DELAYED perhaps tW or three weeks
or more; for they must be sent to the
foundry to be repaired. They do not,
therefore, crush out all the juice that is in
the cane. have frequently taken it up,
wrung it, and seen the rich drops OF juice
dripping from it in streams. They say
thew cannot afford to exhaust it of this
Juice for fear of breaking their mills.
What is more pleasant than all, gentle
men. with our system as carried on at
Fort Scott, we obtained, from six carloads
of cane sent to US by Edward j. Gay, 70
pounds more per ton than anybody pre-
dicted we could. They say that they can
not afford to run their old system, obtain
ing the above small amounts some other
system is to be adopted, and they say II
this system of diffusion holds out they can
laugh at the tariff. They can make sugar
there so cheaply, as they. gradually ria
themselves of their old mills, that II the
Government is determined to deprive
them of this protection they can still make
sugar and make it profitably.
LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP.
7 recommend that none of you immedl-
ately 20 to making sugar. lpresume that
I could have induced the establishment OF
numbers of factories this year, had l
thought proper to do so. But what gen
tleman of good common sense would un-
dertake to run any manufacturing estaD-
lishment without either understanding it
thoroughly himself or obtaining an expert
to manage it for him? Skill is required,
and one of the first things we need is
school for instruction. We ought to have
a school in every State to teach men how
to make sugar by this new process, to
qualify them to run these factories, to edu-
cate them in the business, and then we
shall see our sugar factories established ev-
erywhere throughout the country. Ev-
ery neigborhood can do it. Farmers can
do it. ,.-,
Of course, under this process, which we
have now, to establish a good plant would
cost some $4,000 or s30,0000. But 1 am
CARRYING on experiments in New Jersey
this wear with a much simpler plant, cost
ing from $4,000 to $1,000. Last year in
New Jersey one acre of ground, carefully
measured by Mr.. Hughes, produced 1870
pounds of sugar. You will find that in
our agricultural reports, and l will say
that if those who are specially interested
in studying this matter will write to me
for the department of agriculture reports,
where all of this has been laid before the
public, 1 shall be very glad to send it to
them.
THE IMPORTANCE OF TIE BUSINESS.
The Importance of this new industry tc
the American people wish toimpress up.
on you very strongly if l can. You know
something about the production Of
farm products that is going on in this
country. You know that if there was not
so much cotton produced it would bring 8
better price; if there was not so much
wheat produced it would not be selling al
so or 60 cents bushel. have lately beer
through Dakota, Montana and Manitoba
and language will not enable me to de-
scribe to you the extent of that country
Day after day 1 rode through the riches
prairie lands l ever saw; they seemed tt
me limitess in extent. 1t was like going
out into the great Atlantic Ocean with 3
boundless eXpanse upon every side of you
Land can be taken there as a homestead
Emigrants are focking and living there ir
houses, tents and cabins of every conceiv
able kind.
If ground is ploughed this summer ant
next summer it will produce thirty bush
els of corn to the acre. Some of the syndi
Gates formed in the East cultivate 10000
or O,OOO acres Of wheat. 1t is true they
have a rigorous climate in winter, but they
sow wheat in April, harvest in Angus
and thrash in September, and in October
it is on the way to the Eastern market, anc
they sell out and 60 to their homes in th'
East. Everything is conducted on those
huge farms with military precision. They
have the best horses and mules; men Wht
are up every morning at 5 o'clock, thu
horses and mules are curried and fed, the
harness is put on them; by 6 O'Clock they
are through breakfast and 90 out and worl
till half-past I. A superintendent work
with a gang of fifty or sixty horses an(
ploughs.