The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-24
MANY BARRELS OF SYRUP.
PLANT SYSTEM HANDLES 4 LOT or
THE GEORGIA Product.

Freight Men Believe There VIII BE
Record of 10000 Barrels From
the Section About CairO-COuntry
Between Quitman and cambridge
Along the Line of the System
VIII Ship Something Like 10000
BarreIs-Syrup Is Now Being Put
Up in Cans and Bottles for the Re-
tail Trade to a Considerable Ex-
ent-This Is an Advantage to the
Producer.
A dispatch in to-day's Morning News
from Atlanta announces that the Central
and the Southern will still further reduce
their rates on cotton from Atlanta and
Athens to meet the cut of the Seaboard
from 25 to 20 cents a hundred. 1t is fur
Their said the reduction will so into effect
to-day, as does that of the Seaboard.
1t is possible that there may be an error,
for the traffic office of the Central Rail-
road here knew nothing of the reduction.
1t was said that, had the Central sent no
tice to the commission at Atlanta of its
intention to reduce. as would be the course
pursued in such an event, the Office force
would have known of 1t.
Vice President Eagan and Traffic Man
ager Hinton of the Central are in New
York attending a meeting of representa-
tives of the lines at interest in the cotton
rate war to see what can be effected in
the way of an adjustment of the differ
ences. Either of these gentlemen could
have stated definitely as TO the truth of
the report that the Central would fall in
line with the Seaboard, and when that
road comes down to 20 cents from 25 come
down itself from 10 to IS cents hundred.
The news, If true, will doubtless be sur
prising to the force in the traffic office.
The report is contradictory if the state
ment of a leading official of the Central
who said a few days ago that the new cut
of the Seaboard would not be met just at
present by the Central and Southern what
ever might be done after the meeting in
New York. He thought this meeting
would prove successful in arriving at an
adjustment of the rates.
The Plant System has a growing indus
try along a portion of its line that furnish
es it considerable freight, and, 1t Is said,
nets those engaged in 1t quite handsome
results This is sugar cane culture in
South Georgia and boiling the syrup from
the succulent stalks.
Freight officials of the system say the
greatest quantity of syrup Is produced IN
the neighborhood of Cairo. This is prob
ably the greatest cane producing territory
in the state 1t is expected that something
like 10000 barrels will be shipped from
Cairo alone this season.
ha GfT0tpn
try from Quitman to cambridge the Plant
System handles a great deal of syrup. The
business is not confined within these linn
its, but is from the stations between them
that the road receives its largest ship
ments. 1t is estimated that there will be
10000 barrels shipped by the Plant line
from these stations.
Some Of the syrup is shipped in cans and
bottles, the farmers having lately adopted
this plan. Put up in such packages there
is more money in the syrup for them and
they can get some of the profit that usual
Nv falls to a middleman. 1t is for the re-
tail trade that the syrup is thus put up.
Most Of the crop, however, is still ship
ned in bulk to large jobblng houses in
Chattanooga Louisville, Cleveland, Gin
cinnati Richmond and other points that
have large wholesale trades. 1t is said
that the syrup is used as one of the com
moments of fancy syrups that are made up
nv the iobbers and then Tesold at hand
some profit These bulk shipments go in
barrels. Much of the syrup SO shipped is
nut M by the jobbers in smaller vessels
and thus retalled. Railroad men believe
farmers are doing the right thing when
thew begin to procure cans and bottles and
put up the syrup themselves for the small
er trade.
Most of the shipments received by the
Plant System come from a few large pro-
ducers or dealers through the country In
which the syrup is made. Some few of the
farmers make enough to ship direct them
selves, but the majority sell to few bust
ness houses that make speciality of
handling the stuff.
Inst now the movement of the syrup is
about at its hight During the month OF
November the most Of the cane is ground.
The syrup is boiled from its juice. The
svrup will not keep we'll during the sum-
mer months, fermentation being apt to set
in with warm weather, so the stun is put
on the market soon after 1t is made.
Put up in bottles il stands the test of
time better, and, Theoretically sealed, IL
does not ferment This is one of the adj
vantages seen in its being so placed on the
market.
The acreage in cane is said to be on the
Increase in South Georgia. 1t is claimed
there is profit in the business and the
railroads viii not be sorry to see the in
dustry carried on an even more extern
sive scale. If Ii viii net the farmers bet
ter money than cotton they would like to
see it raised.