The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-05
TO DISCUSS SUGAR QUESTION.
NR. TILLMAN INVITED BEFORE
THE BOARD OF TRADE.

An Invitation Extended by President
Purse-The Address 10 lie Deliver
ed Wednesday and to BE Open to
the PubIic-PrOG. stubbs of the
Louisiana Experiment station to
Be Invited to Deliver an Address
on the Same Question at HIS Con-
venfence-A Discussion as to the
Relative Advantages of Tests or
Cane and of syrup.
At a special meeting of the Board Of
Trade held yesterday afternoon the presl-
dent was instructed to invite Mr.. Joseph
TiHman, of Quitman, TO deliver an adj
dress upon the subject of the production
Of sugar from Georgia syrup. The date set
for the address is next Wednesday.
President Purse has been in correspond
ence with Mr.. Til.man on this subject and
the latter has announced his readiness to
accept such an invitation when rendered.
Mr. THman also stated that on this mis-
sion he would be accompanied by Capt.
Rhodes who is now with him in Quitman,
and whom he states is an expert OF long
experience in sugar refining, and who viii
bic Information on the subject.
The address wiz be delivered at the
Board of Trade rooms at noon, and a gem
eral invitation TO attend viii be extended
to business men and citizens generally.
Mr.. Qutmans articles in the Morning
News have excited much interest in the
subject of sugar production from Georgia
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ton, winch has aroused such general in
terest, was begun by Mr.. Tillman. Having
made a special study of the subject he is
better fitted perhaps upon il than almost
anyone else who could be named.
President Purse was also instructed to
extend an invitation to Prof w c. Stubs,
! director of the Louisiana Sugar Expert
| ment Station. to visit Savannah at his con-
venience and address the citizens on the
subject Of sugar production. Prof. Stubhs
| letter published in yesterdays Morning
| News giving the history of sugar-cane cul-
! ture in this country and facts concerning
| The yield of Georgia and Florida cane, was
read with much interest and excited gen.
| eral comment. His offer to make a free
test of samples of Georgia and Florida
| cane furnishes a much desired opportuni-
" and one which viii undoubtedly be avail
| ed of,
Prof. Stubs offer is to make a test of
the cane and not of the syrup. Heretofore
! all the discussion has been upon the line of
! the production of sugar from syrup. There
| is difference of opinion as to which is the
more desirable. 1t is contended by some
that as the Georgia farmers cultivate only
! small aCreages of cane that sugar mills in
| the country districts could not be operated
! at an advantage and that what is needed
! for the benefit of the farmers is a refinery
! to which each farmer can ship his surplus
| syrup, whether a half dozen barrels or as
many hundred barrels, The discussion
was begun upon the idea of furnishing a
market for the Georgia syrup which is al
ready produced in such quantities as to be
| a drug on the local market.
! Others who have given some attention &c
| the subject. say that 1t would be much
! more advantageous to produce the sugar
| direct from the cane, as with the crude
| machinery in use upon che farms a large
| percentage of the juice of the cane is lost
| and the product Correspondngly decreas-
ed In Louisiana. where the sugar indus
! Try is conducted on a large scale, it is
| the ordinary thing for the cane to be haul
ed from the fields 10 the mills by rail for
distances of from forty to sixty miles, the
character of the freight making a low rate
! possible Prof. Stubs pamphlet, Sugar
| Making on Small Scale" gives much in
teresting information on this subject
| Capt Purse has received several requests
| for these pamphlets and il is likely that
they VIII be in demand by those who con
template taking up the industry