Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-04-20

quired in cutting and hauling it to mar
ket. Of course it will be bonanza for
those that live close to the MILL As 30
how far it can be hauled probably Is
question not easily decided. While SIX
miles is nearly the limit in the eastern
portion of the state, where the roads cut
up easily and other crops do finely, 1t u
no criterion for us to 60 by. With Us 1t
depends upon the roads, the teams, and
the crops We raise. With good road,
good three or four horse team, strong
wagon and rack, from 5000 to 1000
pounds can be hanled at load.
As for it impoverishing the soil. there
can be no immediate danger. The roots
seem to be more like clover roots than
any other crop raised, and fields that
have been planted to sorghum for years
show no sign OF exhaustion. 1t would be
unreasonable to suppose that it would
not finally exhaust some Of the elements
required for its growth.
It is claimed that sugar is composed of
water and carbon. The carbon is taken
from the air, and the water from both air
and ground.
The two new methods which promise 80
well are the Adamson Roasting Process,
and the other is by using the concretor.
By the first process the cane is roasted
before grinding. It is claimed that plants
OF 100 tons capacity per "a hours can be
erected for from $4,000 to $4,000, &C.
cording to location and the desire of the
builder, who may want q frst-class outfit
or one for as little money as possible.
This process has been patented, and it
is claimed that as much, If not more,
sugar can be manufactured per ton than
by the diffusion process, and at greatly
reduced expense. Another advantage
claimed for it is that it only requires
water to supply the boiler with steam,
and the crushed cane, when it comes from
the mill is SO dry that it can at once be
used for fuel, and that the quantity is
nearly, if not quite, sufficient for the
engine. If this proves to be fact it will
remove one of the principal drawbacks to
manufacturing in western Kansas.
A large company has been organized at
Meade Center to perfect and manufacture
machines and furnaces.
The Sterling Syrup Works are now
arranging to put concretor in their
works. This apparatus is now in use in
several foreign countries. It reduces
cane juice to solid -molasses and
sugar together-with no attempt at crys-
talizing the sugar. This concrete can
now be shipped many thousand miles to
refneries that separate and refine the
sugar from the molasses. 1t is now reg
ularly quoted in the London markets at
nearly the price of brown sugar. The
apparatus is comparatively inexpensive,
and does not require experts to operate
it. It is highly recommended by sugar
engineers who have used it, and by scien-
tific men who have tabulated its results
and have compared its products with
that of the ordinary expensive sugar ap-
paratus. This seems to be practical
way of simply condensing cane juice to a
small bulk so that it can be shipped and
refined by those who have the facilities
and skill to properly crystalize sugar, and
to separate it from the molasses, and to
decclorize and granulate it and produce
finished and marketable article. Sorghum
sugar manufactured at Topeka in 1888 was
nearly white, and refineries are soon to
be erected in the eastern part of the state.
Sorghum sugar is from SO to SO per
cent. pure sugar.
We expect to investigate these new
methods that have been introduced, and
will report after we have witnessed their
practical workings. This is likely to be
an eventful year for the sugar industry in
Kansas. Appropriations of large sums
of money have been made by the q. 8.
government to continue the experiments
at Sterling and Fort Scott. Many others
are also experimenting in different parts
Of the state.
We remember that it has been said
that he who causes two blades of grass to
grow where before only one grew is a
public benefactor. How much more a
public benefactor the man who grapples
with science that he may learn the secrets
of nature and natures laws for the bene-
fit OF mankind. These tireless workers
are Justly entitled to the success that is
attending their efforts, and which will
bring to Kansas prosperity and blessings
without number. And while we are ex-
pressing our gratitude to those who have
labored for our good, let us not forget our
noble Senator Plumb, who has stood res
oiutely by these workers through Ill of
of their discouragements, and when they
were about to give up in despair, looked
with prophetic vision into the future and