Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-09
SUGAR BOUNTIES.
The New Law viii BE i'm Effect
from July Next.
Applications for Licenses Beginning
to Pour In.
Great Pains Must Be Taken to
Prevent Fraud,

AS Every Ounce of the Product Must BE
Government Ohicers Farmers and
Planters Throughout the Country Fully
Alive to the Fact Uncle Sam Is Going to
Give Them Big Fight.
New YORK, June GA Washington
special says:
Within year from July /, the treas
ury department will pay the citizens of
the United States between $12 ,000, 900
and $15, 100000 as bounty for raising
sugar. This sum will be disbursed in
various portions of the country, The
most of it will go to Louisiana for the
production of cane sugar. Over 81 ,000,-
900 will be paid to the farmers in New
England states, Neg York, Ohio, nh-
nOis and the northwestern states for the
production of sugar from maple sap. A
large sum will be distributed in Kansas,
Nebraska, Iowa and California, among
tflose who make sugar FROM beots anu
sorghum cane.
No Small Undertaking.
The distribution of such great sum
widely separated, and the pains that
must be taken to prevent fraud upon the
government, will be an undertaking of
considerable magnitude. Every one of
the millions Of pounds Of s..ggar ns.A-
duced must be weighed, and samples of
it tested and inspected by government
inspectors, who will be appointed for
that purpose. This work will be done
under the direction Of the internal reve-
nue. bureau of the treasury department,
and will be conducted with such thor
oughness and system as to prevent and
detect fraud
The bounty to be paid for the produc-
ton of American sugar IS authorized by
the tariff law, commonly known as the
Mckinley bill. The law provides that
the producers of sugar which tests 80 de-
grees by the polariscope shall receive
bounty of two cents per pound, and
those producing sugar testing less than
80 and not less than so degrees shall re-
ceive bounty of not less than one and
three-fourths cents per pound. The law
also provides regulations under which
the bounty shall be applied for and paid.
When the sugar has been produced,
refined and placed in barrels ready for
shipment to the purchaser, the govern
ment inspector will make his appear
ance at some stipulated points to test
and inspect it, and certify its strength
and value to the commissioner of in
ternal revenue, who will in turn for
ward the certificate to the secretary of
the treasury for his approval, after
which warrant for the amount of the
bounty will bo issued.
Making Preparations.
The internal revenue burean ia very
busy making preparations to carry the
bounty law into effect. The chemist of
the bureau is preparing the weights and
the graduated glass TASKS which are to
be used with the polariscope. The ut
most care must be taken with this work,
and absolute accuracy is necessary.
When the twelve inspectors are appoint
ed they must be instructed in the use Of
the delicate instrument and its care. The
bureau of engraving and printing is pre-
pairing the licenses to be issued and the
form of the bonds. Applications are be-
ginning to pour into the Office OF the
commissioner of internal revenue for
licenses.
There is every indication that the
farmers of the west who raise beets and
sorghum, the planters Of the south with
their immense plantations of cane, and
the farmers of the north with their
groves of maple trees are fully alive to
the fact that the government intends to
pay them for their industry in addition
to the market price they will receive for
their products, and they mean to get all
they can for their products.