The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-02-26


was expected it would This is due en-
tirely to disregard on the part of
some of the managers to the conditions
which the business requires.
The amount of sugar manufactured
during the year is as follows:
Medicine Lodge Sugar works X Re
tining Co. 5O0Oi5 lbs
Parkinson Sugar rCo................ $500 lbs
Pape * Hansford. rd.................. l2D.OJO lbs
AollA-- i lutcf-t9 lDS-
Which Is 293Gs5 pounds less than last
year. This does not include the second
sugars at Medicine Lodge, which have
not been inspected yet, and will in
crease the output about 100, 900 pounds
The Medicine Lodge factory, which
for two years stood at the head of the
industry, suffered last year from a
change of management, causing delays
and mistakes that produced balance
on the wrong side of the ledger.
The Topeka sugar works were leased
by Messrs. Pape and Stansford, who
are stockholders in the Topeka sugar
company. Manufacturing began about
October 10, and continued at intervals
until November 1. making about 120,-
600 pounds of sugar, when for lack of
capital the factory passed into the
hands of a receiver.
The Fort Scott Co. contracted for
1000 acres of cane, all of which was de-
livered. The crop was backward and
of inferior quality compared with
former years, but notwithstanding the
fact that over 1000 tons less of cane
was worked for sugar than last year
the amount of sugar manufactured eX-
ceeded last years crop by 101, 4S9
pounds. The value of the Fort Scott
plant is SIS, 900. The total value of the
years product was s35, ,172; the total
cost of production S23, 500. -, leaving
profit of S11, 3GS.7s.
There were a few beets raised at
Medicine Lodge for experimental pur-
poses at the government station, but
none fer the sugar company. the COM
pany has satisfied themselves as to the
possibilities of the business, but were
in no condition TO put in the additional
machinery necessary to successfully
prosecute the business, the cost OF
which would be from S25, 900 to $50, coo.
Farmers generally over the state do
not seem inclined to adopt the cultiva-
ton of sugar beets. preferring to raise
crops with which they are more
familiar and which do not require such
careful attention.
Under the head of difficulties of
clarifying sorghum sugar." the report
says that carbonatation experiments
were satisfactory as to the amount of
sugar separated, but the process rem
dered the molasses understandable.
In 1890, the use of alcohol as pre-
cipitant seemed to fiji the require
ments, and the last congress having
made an appropriation for the purpose,
the department of agriculture, under
the direction of DIR. X. w. Wiley, es-
tablished an experimental station at
Medicine Lodge, ,erectinga a model sugar
house, with complete apparatus for
conducting the experiments on a
more extensive scale than is possible
in the laboratory. The juices, during
the first of the process, were treated
exactly as in the various sugar houses
of the state. After boiling in the
multiple-e evaporator to density
the sirup was then mixed with an
equal quantity of alcohol, which com
pletely precipitated the gums. After
allowing the sirup to stand for time.
it was then drawn off and washed
through filter press The alcohol be-
ing removed from the juice, it was then
boiled in the strike-pan. erystalizing
readily. The amount of sugar thus OBJ
tanned was about doubled, and the
sirup was much improved in color and
flavor.
Another result obtained By the gov
ernment at Medicine Lodge is of inter
est and Importance to farmers. not
only in raising sorghum, but in the
raising of other crops as we'll A forty
acre tract of ground. was plowed and
subsoiled to the depth of about eighteen
inches, narrowed and then rolled. The
seed was planted in various ways-part
of it was listed in, part WI as planted by
hand with hoe, part with one-horse
planter and some with a two-horse
planter. That planted with the two
horse planter gave better satisf action
than any other.
This method of preparing the ground
was more expensive, but the results
obtained were in excess of the usual
method. This field raised eighteen
tons per acre, while the average yield
of other fielcs farmed in the usual way
was from seven to ten tons per acre.
The results obtained at Fort Scott
during the past season under unfavor-
able circumstances demonstrate that
the business can now be su ccessfully
q,
tions are fully complied with.
The Oat Meal Trust.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Ie-, Feb. 2o-E P
Crowell, manager of the big oatmeal
mill az this place. in an interview yes