Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-02-25

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planted for the use of these factories
as follows:
Acrfs.
Medicine Lodge. 400
ocot' --I,UO
Total. 4oD
Only about 900 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
cries than last year. Although there
was 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 disregard on the part of
some OF the managers to the conditions
winch the business requires.
The amount Of sugar manufactured
during the year is as follows:
Medicine Lodge Sugar works S Re
hnlng Co. 5OO,O40 lbs.
PARKINSON Sugar Co. ............... Ass, eco lbs.
Pape q HanSford- Observation-Disclosures. 10000 lbs.
Total. LOIS 245 lbs.
Which is 1913. 6S5 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, 600 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 a 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 con tinued at intervals
until Novem Der 1. making about $780,
600 pounds of sugar, when for lack of
capital the factory passed into the
hands of 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, 439
pounds. The value of the Fort Scott
plant is $4,000. The total value of the
years product was $50, 1?2; the total
cost of production S23, SO3. 49, leaving
profit Of S11, 36S.7S.
There were 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 of
which would be from S25, 900 to $50, 900.
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 sdificulties 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 unmerchantable.
In 1890, 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 DR.. III. w. Wiley, es-
tablished an experimental station at
Medicine Lodge, erecting model sugar
house, with complete apparatus for
conducting the experiments on
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-effect evaporation to density
of about As degrees Brix and cooling,
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, cry stalking
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
eminent at Medicine Lodge is of in ter
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
SUBSIDIZED 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 was planted by
hand with hoe, part with a 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 fields 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
conducted when the required condi-
tions are fully complied with.
The Dat Meal Trust.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Ia, Feb. 2o.-E R.
Crowel1, manager of the big oatmeal
mill at this place, in an interview yes
terday. said there was no truth in the
article in the Chicago Tribune of We'd
nesday, which stated that the oatmeal
trust was compelled TO sell its products
for less than cost and that it was in
danger of going to pieces. He said that
while competition was very sharp and
prices lower their products had not