Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-02-28


~ Welll % DlsoovERGp.
The Sterling sugar works have writ
ten an interesting letter to the MEM
Der Of the Legislature who introduced
the bill offering $1,000 bounty to the
parties discovering . method whereby
the juice of the sorghum cane can be
reduced without impairing its sacchar-
inc qalities. We make a few extracts
from the letter. which will doubtless
be of interest to our readers.
ave have spent $1,000 In expert
ments in that line, and We will con-
tinue them. By the terms of the bill
such experiments cost the state moth
ing until full trial and proof has been
made of the successful performance
OF the conditions. Methods which
would fully meet those conditions
would be much more valuable to the
public and to the d;scoverer than the
sum named in your bill, but that offer
BY the state would undoubtedly turn
the attention Of practical experiment.
ers In that line, and we do not. doubt
that good results would come.
"There are two ways in which the
sorghum industry can be advanced
and the prosperity of Western Kansas
can be advanced by any policy which
will promote the prosperity of the sor-
ghum industry. This can be accom-
plished by any new process which will
remove the water from the cane juice
cheaply, leaving the sugar of the juice
uninjured, and also by improving the
quality of the canes by introducing
new varieties, and selecting varieties
best suited to this country. Last year
we planted 100 varieties of sorghum in
en- experimental field at our own ex-
pense. Many of these varieties were
obtained from foreign countries, and
were new to this country. 1000 anal
Uses of the caues were made by the
government chemist, the object being
to select the varieties best suited to
sugar manufacture.
"The sorghum sugar industry will
become an important industry by i'm
proving the sorghum plant, by select
ing the varieties best suited to western
Kansas, and also by methods Of pro-
ducing raw or crude sugar, or concrete,
which can be generally used.
ave are well aware that many sugar
experts assert that sugar cannot prof
itably be made outside of 100000
sugar factory. At present this is, IN
fortunately for western Kansas. true.
Considering the interest which the
new and unwealthy counties have in
the sorghum industry, we hope it will
not long be true.
eve have received many samples OF
cane from other states for analysis,
and the analyses show that western
Kansas produces canes which are rich
in sugar making qualities. 1t is quite
probable that an acre of land in west
ern Kansas does not on an average
produce as much cane as an acre of
land in moist climates, but the Juice
of the canes contains a high per cent
age of sugar. In all sugar-growing
countries dry fall increases the yield
of sugar. A wet and rainy fall lessons
the yield of sugar; it also increases the
expense of harvesting the cane. This
is true in beet sugar manufacture in
Europe. tits true in the sugar cane
manufacture in Louisiana and in the
West Indies. Western Kansas has
dry fall seasons which give rich cane
juice, it has dry roads for the heavy
cane hauling, it has climate and soil
suited to cane growing. 1t has an in
telligent and energetic people who
need the employment which sugar
manufacture can give them, and who
need the cash value which western cane
contains. The western part of the
state is a comparatively undeveioped
part of the state domain. 1t is right
and proper, it is good policy for the
stats to aid and encourage the line Of
manufacture to which the western
counties are suited, and in which they
may excel Thanking you for your
efforts in this direction, we are respect
fully,
STERLING SYRUP Works"
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