The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-02-27
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4hS IepoEb OF 9bAb5 sugar AuS SpSCbuF
George +. Kellogg has been issued,
covering the year 1891 Only three of
the sugar factories of the state have
been operated the past year.
There weres 4, coo acres of sorghum
planted for the use Of these factories
Acrs
Medicine Lodge. .,.... 400
Fort scott .l,VOO
Topeka. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. coo
Total.
Only about 200 acres Of the Topeka
crop were used, the balance being left
in the hands of the farmers.
The average quality of the cane for
the season was lower at all Of the fact
ories than last year. Although there
was a sufficient amount of good cane,
the business has not resulted as favor
ably as it should have done, or as it
was expected it would. This is due en-
tirely to a 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 & Re
inning Co..,............s..,..... 5O0O45 IDS.
Parkinson Sugar Co.. ................ 45S2OO bs.
Pape Hansford. ord.................... 10000 lbs.
Total. i, ,OTs e45 lbs.
Which is 293.6s5 pounds less than last
year. This does not include the second
sugars at Medicine Lodge, which have
crease the output about 100, 600 pounds.
The Medicine Lodge factory, which
for two years stood at the head of the
industry, suffered last year from
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
Oct Der 10, and continued at intervals
until November 1, making about 120,-
900 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 1O1, 4s9
pounds. The value of the Fort Scott
plant is SO, 900. The total value of the
years product was S35, 172; the total
cost of production s93, 500. %, leaving a
profit of $l1, 36s, 7s.
There were a few beets raised at
Medicine Lodge for experimental pur-
poses at the government station, but
none for 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 oi
which would be from $35, 900 to $50, 600
Farmers generally over the state d,
not seem inclined to adopt the cultiva
tion of sugar beets, preferriDg to raise
crops with which they are more
familiar and which do not require sucf
careful attention,
Under the head of difficulties oi
clarifying sorghum sugar, " the report
says that carbonatatioR experiments
were satisfactory as to the amount oI
sugar separated, but the process rem
dered the molasses unmerchantable.
In $780, the use of alcohol as pre-
cipitant seemed to fill the require
ments, and the last congress having
made an appropriation for the purpose
the department. of agriculture, under
the direction of DIR. H. w. Wiley, es
tablished an experimental station al
Medicine Lodge, erecting a model sugar
house, with complete apparatus fol
conducting the experiments on I
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 tn,
multiple-effect evaporator to densit.
of about As degrees Brix and cooling
} the sirup was then mixed with al
equal quantity of alcohol, which com
pletely precipitated the gums, Afte
allowing the sirup to stand for time
it was then drawn off and washe
through filter press. The alcohol bS
ing removed from the juice, it was the
boiled in the strike-pan. cry staliziu
readily. The amount of sugar thus ol
tanned was about doubled, and tn
/, sirup was much improved in color an
flavor.
: Another result obtained by the goy
, ernment at Medicine Lodge is of inte
! est and importance to farmers. nc
/. only in raising sorghum, but in tn
raising of other crops as well A forty
: acre tract of ground was plowed an
, subsoiled to the depth of about eightee
I inches, narrowed and then rolled. Th
, seed was planted in various ways--pal
, of it was listed in, part was planted
; hand with hoe, part with one-hors
planter and some with two-hors
o, anter, That planted with the tive
horse planter gave better satisfactio
than any other.
: Thia method of preparing the groun
Q was more expensive, but the result
r obtained were in excess of the usu,
!, method This field raised eightee
: tons per acre, while the average vie
l of other fields farmed in the usual wa
was from seven to ten tons per acre.
e The results obtained at Fort SEQ
S during the past season under unfavo
: able circumstances demonstrate th,
: the business can now be successful
:. conducted when the required conG
tions are fully complied with.
Tho Oat Meal trust.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Ia, Feb 20.--E.
> Crowell, manager eof the big oatme
= mill at this place. in an interview "
~ terdav. said there was no truth in 4