The record-union., 1897-03-18
FARMERS INSTITUTE MEETS.

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the next time in June. He used ground
SULPHUR in preference to the sublimed.
| He pruned early, commencing about
January 1st, and thus avoided bleeding.
He would head his vines more than a
foot high for Tokays.
He thought that horizontal pruning
was the most fertile in results, and bet
ter than upright. and based his idea on
the way in which the wild vines grow.
| He irrigated both by steam and wind
mills. He used deep and narrow
bitches, which economize water and do
Tot overflow He tried the experiment
of letting them overflow, and a few
days after ran a light plow through it.
No weeds grew that year, but good re-
sluts did not follow, and on trying the
ground he found it hard and dry a
few inches down. and that his vines
were starving for water. He also tried
| the Riverside system, but abandoned
| it as too expensive. If his vineyard
lad only one ditch, however, he would
use it,
| The little jumping wiretapper had
| bafled him. Drowning, whale oil, Paris
| Green Iidu no effect Oh He Only
thing that he knew of is the common
| yellow jacket. He found that they
capture the hoppers and take them to
their nests to feed their larvae.
a violin and piano duet by the Misses
Green followed and was we'll rendered,
after which. the institute took a recess
till 7:30 p. m.
EVENING SESSION.
| The evening session opened with a
very fine cornet and piano duet by the
Misses Green.
California as a Competitor in Beet
| Sugar Trade" was the subject of Z. F
Adams address.
! He said the beet sugar question is not
| fully understood We import in round
numbers $4,000, 900 worth of raw SUI
gar year. Up to within few years
| past our sugar has been made from
cane in tropical countries. When it was
discovered that cane sugar could be
made from beets, the Governments in
which it was made protected it SO as to
make it remunerative to their citizens.
| Most of the nations Of Central Europe
manufactured their own sugar, but af-
ter a while they began to make more
| Revenue was needed in those countries
and in looking around to see what could
| be taxed to raise it they found that it
| was not possible for it to compete in
other markets with the sugar of other
| countries, so it was determined to take
| off a portion of the internal tax that had
been paid on sugar and as country after
country followed suit, the internal tax
was taken off by degrees, until all the
/ tax was rebated. There Russia
stopped and refused to do more, but
other countries went further and gave
! bounties to sugar raisers, in order to
| enable them to compete.
| Sugar has therefore fallen much in
price, in spite of the duty of forty per
| cent levied on it, The foreign countries
have come to an agreement, owing to
the low price of sugar, to stop competi-
| ton with each other and to remove the
bounties on sugar 1t is nearly certain,
| therefore, that we will hereafter have
raw sugar in New York at 3a4 cents.
California is at present supplying the
| Pacific Coast and as far east as Salt
| Lake, and has about reached the limit
of the market. We will, then in the
| future have to find market in New
York for sugar at 334 cents pound. the
freight at present being 20 cents hum
bred.
OF course those in the interior will