The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-30
SOUTH GEORGIA 4 SUGAR SECTION

We have published several articles with
in the last few days showing the percent
age Of saccharine matter in the Juice of
the cane grown in Georgia and Florida.
and also the cost of small sugar mills and
a sugar refinery. In to-day's issue We pub
fish a very conservative article from a
farmer showing the kind of land required
for growing sugar cane, and the amount
of sugar that may be obtained from an
acre of rich land in a favorable season.
The articles we have been publishing
on the question of esta blishing a sugar re-
hnery in this city have aroused a great
deal of interest in this state and Florida,
There are thousands of farmers looking
forward with expectancy to an industrial
undertaking of that kind in this city.
They want a market for their syrup and
for an additional amount they would pro
duce if they were certain of a market
for it,
We are far from certain that sugar cane
would be as Profitable crop as some of the
farmers seem to think it would if
cultivated on a large sca,e, but it would
be profitable crop where small patches
of two or three acres were planted, be-
cause most of The farmers have the com
post necessary TO enrich that amount of
land and their wives and children, and
farm hands at odd times, attend to the
making of the syrup. The whole work of
raising the crop from the time il is plant
ed until The syrup is put in the barrels is
practically done without much expense
These thousands of small farmers would
furnish syrup enough to supply the de
mands of a very large sugar refinery in
this city. In fact in the course of a short
time, they would furnish enough to sup
ply the demand of two or three refneries.
And we have no doubt, from all that has
been said and written on the subject since
the question of establishing a sugar re
lnery in this city has been under consid-
GRAFTON, that there would be more profit
in growing cane in small patches than in
any other crop to which The soil and
climate of this section of the South is
adapted.
As far as we are able to learn there are
only two objections raised to putting
money IN a sugar refinery in this city.
one is the fear that the American Sugar
Refining Company would undertake to de-
stroy the enterprise if il were to be sue
cessful and the other is that il is not VET
settled thai the syrup would yield profit
if purchased at twenty cents a gallon. or
that the farmers could furnish the syrup
at a price that would permit of its being
manufactured into sugar at profit.
Several of our best informed business
men have expressed the opinion that the
sugar trust could not hurt a sugar refinery
in this city for the reason that sugar
manufactured here could be put into the
New York market at twenty cents bar
rel and into the Chicago market about as
cbeaply as the sugar trust could put il
there from New York. The trust couldn't
afford to cut prices in those great mar
kets. In respect to the second objection
it is probable that couple of barrels or
so of the new crop Of syrup will be sent 10
New York this fan and refined, SO thar
there viii no longer be any doubt as to
what amount OF sugar may be expected
from gallon OF an average grade Of
syrup. There is a movement in the direc-
ton of sugar refinery IN this city a.
though 60 The impatient ones II NAV an
pear to be slow.