Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-12-25
9 benefits. If capitalist can persuade

farmers to sell cane to him at $3.50 per ton,
he can make % per cent on his capital of
$4,000. / aim to show you to-day that the
machinery used in, extracting sugar is no
more complicated than that which each of
you must use in ordinary farm manage
ment, and that when it has been ex-
planned, and few days experience with it
has been gained your ordinary farm labor
can use il with good results.
'By this step hope to demonstrate that
both courses of management are open to
you. After lantern slides to illustrate said
machinery have been shown, / will en-
deavor to explain what the possibilities of
this sorghum plant really are. That is, to
show target at which you can direct your
efforts, for | feel that the inventors of
machinery have done their part well and
believe that our ability to compete with
foreign resources must now depend upon
farming SKILL upon business ability, and
upon the efforts ofthe experiment stations.
POSSIBILITIES.
"With a sugar house equipped as it
should be, and capable of handling 50 tons
Of field sorghum daily for 60days, the pos
sibilities are as follows
10 per cont cane, is per cent interest on
$4l ,00l, so per cent on 100000.
u per cent cane, IS per cent interest on
s4l 0OJ, 80 per cent on 420,Ul0.
L. per cent cane, 23 per cont interest on
Sal 900, 46 per cont on S20,0J0
13 per cent cane. 25 per cent interest on
S4l 0I0, so per cent on $20,OOO
IL per cent cane, 28 per cent interest on
dl,O0O, 56 per cent on S2O,0O0
"Now can cane crops of the above grades
be actually produced? Several hundred
Of selected stalks, carried out this year by
Professor Penny, chemist of the station,
have shown as follows: Cane with II per
cent or more of sugar have been found
(216l 81 in Ii per cent of all cases exam
ined. That cane containing ID per cent or
more of sugar (276) t92) in more than 30
per cent of all cases, and that cane with II
per cent sugar (276l III have been found in
more than 63 per cent of all cases ex-
amined.
''fhe fact that averages for an entire sea-
son sink to and 10 per cent, at that II per
cent on an average would give very hand
some profit to all concerned, indicates, not
that the plant is to blame but that our
methods of farming are such that field is
not uniform in ripening, that good high
testing cane are neutralized by bad juices
from immature cane mixed in with the
crop. TO grow a field uniform in time of
ripening is the farmers problem, to man
age the products in the most economical
manner, and to sell them at the proper
time for the best available prices, is the
business side of the matter and to aid
in detecting wastes in the manufacturing
processes, to prevent extravaganza and
losses in fertilizing fields, to test new
varieties of sorghum, and to aid in keeping
the seed of each variety pure, is the duty
of the experiment station, | am now con-
WINGED that the farmers of this Peninsula
have all natural advantage necessary for
developing a profitable sugar industry.
They should see to it that they take advan-
tage of the present favorable legislation to
establish themselves while such support is
available
These were the only addresses delivered,
although many questions were asked the
lecturers when they had finished. After
resolution thanking the officers of the
Experiment Station for their lectures and
views was passed, the institute adjourned
to meet at Hockessin on the third Monday
i'll January.
Some of those present were ]. Wesley
Webb, John Q. Stirling, ]. Wilkins Cooch,
E. d. Talley, George G. Kerr, DIR. Skinner,
Delaware Clark, William Cooch, Samuel
Lindsay, William Kennedy, w. II. Smith,
Charles Walton, Steven Walton, Petes I
Meggitt, George d. Medill, Daniel Draper,
John Lewis, Exam Lewis, James Hossinger,
James Wilson, Charles H. Cannon, Joseph
Rankin, John McKeowan, ex-senator
Crossan, William Stroud, James Henry
and many others from all over the county.