The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-12
BOUNTY ON SUGAR.
What Must Be Done to Secure the
Benefits of the Law.


Growers Of sorghum or sugar cane will be
interested in the following Information rela-
tive to the bounty on sugar Of domestic pro-
duction, under the provisions of the act Of
congress, approved Dot. !, 1890:
All producers of sugar who intend to
apply for the bounty on sugar produced
during the year from July l, 1891. to July
] 1892, in order to entitle themselves the re-
70 must file a notice and make application
for license 70 the collector OF internal rev.
enue through the deputy Of the division In
which the applicant resides. bond must
be executed by every person or firm intend
ing to manufacture and produce sugar cane
under the bounty prov isions OF said act,
which must accompany the notice and ap-
plication for license. The penal sum Of
the bond will be equal TO at least one half
the bounty on the amount Of sugar proposed
to be produced during the year. recKoned at
two cents per pound, but will not in any
case be less than 500.
Upon receipt of the notice and appioa-
ton for license and the bond, If the same
upon examination are in due form,
license will be issued without charge,
through the collector of internal revenue.
The proper blank forms will be furnished
upon application.
There is no provision in the law for traus-
ferring a license. Operations must begin
with no molasses, syrup or sugar on hand
from the previous season. All sugar or
material for making sugar from the previ-
GUS season, should be removed from the
factory before operations are commenced
under the license. II a planter or farmer
sells the cane which he has raised, or the
syrup which he has produced at
any period before the manufacture
Of sugar is complete, he will have
no right to the bounty on the completed
product. There is no bounty on syrup
which is not made Into sugar, nor will any
bounty be allowed or paid upon any quanti-
tY of sugar less than five hundred 500
pounds. Sugar, to be entitled to the
bounty, must be made from the cane or
other raw material after July l, 1891. No
wagon sugars remaining over from the
previous seasons production, or sugar In
process of manufacture made from cane or
syrup before July /, 1891, will be entitled to
the bounty, although the process is COM
pleted and the sugar made after July !.
It will be necessary under the law to
classify the sugar for payment of the bounty
according to the polariscopic test. The
polariscope is an instrument which deter
mines the per cent. of pure sugar in any
given sample, without regard to its color or
condition. The sample of sugar to be tested
is carefully weighed and dissolved in an
exact volume of water, and a ray Of polar
A1oO ~ 10 pnhocu buc bOiuJlOU. IN
passing through the solution the ray is
deviated in proportion to the amount
Of pure sugar which the solution
contains. This instrument measures the
deviation Of the ray upon a scale of 100.
When sugar tests 909 it is nine-tenths pure
sugar. There will be no bounty upon any
sugar which does not contain 80 per cent Of
pure sugar. Upon sugar testing 800 to 900
by the polarisc0pe the bounty will be ~
cents per pound, and upon sugar testing 9O9
and above cents per pound.
Claims for bounty cannot be transferred
or assigned. The claims must be made by
the sugar producer, and the drafts issued in
payment OF the claims will be made payable
to his order.