Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-10-07
Sugar Notes.

We made our weekly visit to the sug-
ar mills, yesterday, and found the big
millin trouble over the bad roads,. as
the supply of cane has been cut down
to nearly nothing. Everything is run
ming perfectly except the yaryan, which
causes delay.
The rain of last Friday stopped ey-
eryDody from delivering cane except
Granville Morris.
The yaryan is the chief annoyance ut
the big mill. When everything else
does remarkably well, It is sure to get
out OF order.
A q inch steel shaft was broken at
the mill one day last week. The shaft
contained the pulley that ran the shred
der belt. 1t was repaired without much
Joss of time.
The silo hole at the big mill is proba-
bly, the largest silo hole in the world.
1t is about half full OF silo, and is be.
ing trampled in by herses. The hole
is ESQ feet long. 16 feet deep and 16 feet
wide at the bottom, the sides sloping
Wv ~ oOOuOs 80 1OCb 01 LILO BUDs
The frosts have not hurt the cane.
Some of our farmers are fearful that
they will get caught by freeze before
they get their crops delivered.
The wire cable that runs the leaves
out to the silo hole broke one day last
week, and there was nobody about the
mill who knew how to splice 1t. But
luckily there was man working at the
cement works who knew, and he was
sent for, and soon had it spliced.
Somebody telegraphed the Kansas
City Times that the government ex-
perlmental works were getting l56
pounds of sugar to a ton of cane, five
time as much as obtained by the diffus-
lon process, and nearly ten tons of cane
was raised to the acre." There are
some mistakes in the above. The diff
fusion process is squeezing lis pounds
OF sugar out of ton of Is per cent cane;
and the government farm raised nearly
thirty tons to the acre, instead of
NEARLY ten TONS" These corrections
will put better face on the sugar bus
ness in this section.
Five car loads of sugar, and some
small lots have been sold. The total
amount sold and shipped from the mill
up to yesterday morning aggregated
22S, 700 pounds. This leaves about 49,
600 pounds on hand. No second sugar
has been made. All the tanks are full
of second" and it is now being pump
ed into the big cistern. The big lot of
second" will give the mill work for
couple of months this winter or next
spring.
THE EXPERIMENTAL WORKS.
We found the experimental works al.
most idle, because there no cane to
grind. Prof. Wiley went out Monday,
and cut cane, and sent it to the mill.
Everybody about the mill is smiling
over the success of the alcohol process.
Prof. Wiley says they have made 40
pounds OF first sugar to the ton of cane,
and it is almost certain that they will
get so pounds of second sugar to the
ton. If they get 80 pounds of second,
it Will make the yield 200 pounds per
ton, which IS equal to the Louisiana
sugar cane yield. When it shall be
demonstrated beyond any doubt that
ton Of sorghum cane can be made to
give up 200 pounds of sugar, it will
mean great deal to this section of
country. More mills will be built, and
thousands of acres will be planted in
sorghum, and the price of cane will be
raised to such price that all farmers
will be anxious to raise it.
This mill has two or three thousand
pounds OF sugar on hand. But making
large quantities of sugar is not its mis-
sion. Its chief aim is to get the largest
possible yield from q ton of cane.