The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-02-26

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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 zane.
the business has not resulted as favor
ably as it should have done, or as it
was expected it would. This Is due en-
tiFely to disregard on the part of
some OF the manager to the conditions
which the business requires
The amount OF sugar manufactured
during the year is as follows:
Medicine Lodge Sugar works 81 Re
-li-i-= -'------,--- oelt2 lbs
Fape & Hansiord s.---.-.-------. 10000 lbs
Which is 293, 6s5 pounds less than last
year. This does not include the second
sugars at Medicine Lodge, which have
not been inspected yet, and viii iu-
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 a balance
on the wrong side Of the ledger.
The Topeka sugar works were leased
by Messrs- Pape and StausfOrd, who
are stockholders ia the Topeka sugar
company. Manufacturing began about
October 10, and continued at iuterva' S
until NOvem Der /, making about 12Dr-
600 pounds of sugar. when for lack of
capital the factory passed into the
hands of a receiver.
The Fort Scott Co. contracted for
LOCO acres OF cane, all of which was de-
hvered. The crop was backward and
of inferior quality compared with
-a.H-
TACT that over 1000 tons less of cane
was worked for sugar than last year
the amount OF sugar manufactured eE-
eecded last years crop by 1ul. 48a
pounds. The value of the Fort Scott
plant is Sz5, 600. The total value of the
years product was s35, I72; the total
cost of production s23. SOB. %. leaving q
profit of Sl1. 3Gs.Ts.
There were a few beets raised at
Medicine Lodge for experimental pur-
poses ut 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 SIS, 900 to $50, OOO
Farmers generally over the state d
not seem inclined to adopt the cultivu-
ton OF sugar beets, preferring to raise
crops with which they are more
familiar aud which do not require such
careful attention.
Under the head OF 'diHculties Of
clarifying sorghum sugar" the report
says that carbouatation 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 a pre-
cipitant seemed to I'LL the require
-
made an appropriation for the purpose,
the department of agriculture, under
the direction OF DIR. H. W. Wiley, es-
taolished an experimental station at
Medicine Lodge, erecting model sugar
house, with complete apparatus for
conducting the experiments on "a
more extensive scale than is possible
in the laboratory. The ] ices, during
the FIRST of the process, were treated
exactly as in the various sugar houses
of the state After boiling in the
multiple-effect evaporator to a density
Of about IS degrees Bri-I and cooling,
the sirup was then mixed with an
equal quantity of alcohol, which COM
pletely precipjtated the gums. After
allowing the strip to stand for a time.
it was then drawn OF and washed
through a filter press. The alcohol be-
ing removed from the Juice, it was then
boiled in the strilzs-pan, cry stalking
EeaQlAg- me 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 well A forty
acre tract of ground was plowed AMI
subsoiled to the depth Of about eighteen
inches, narrowed and then rolled. The
seed was planted in various vays-part
Of it was listed in, part was planted by
hand with a hoe, part with a oue-horss
planter and some with a tyvo-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 we're in eEcess of the usual
method This field raised eighteen
IONS per acre, while the average WELD
of other fields faVmed in the usual vgaV
was from seven to ten tons per acre.
The results obtained at Fort Scott
during the past season under uufavor-
able circumstances demonstrate that
the business can now be su ccessfullv
conducted when the required condi-
tions are fully complied with.