Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-05-18
SUGAR INDUSTRY IN GEORGIA

SUGAR INDUSTRY IN GEORGIA.
In his monthly talks to the farmers
just issued, Commissioner Stevens, of
the department of agriculture, speaks
of the sugar cane and cassava indus
tries. Among other things he says:
''The department of agriculture has
made constant aud earnest efforts 10
bring about revival of the sugar cane
industry in Georgia. The revival has
come and promises great results. This
industry has never entirely ceased, and
for the last few years has grown much
in Importance.
although Louisiana obtained her
sugar cane from Georgia, this valuable
crop has in this state been so overshad-
owed by cotton and rice as not to re-
ceive the attention which Its merits de-
serve Yet in the lower counties there
is more money in sugar cane than in
cotton, and in this section the making
of strip from sugar cane has doubled
in the last two or three years.
GAS far back as 1929 there was built
on the plantation of James Hamilton
Copper large sugar house, which at
the time of It's erection was in advance
of any similar plant in Louisiana or the
West Indies. This Hopeton planta-
ton, under the management of Mr..
Copper, a gentleman of wealth and Of
the highest culture, was declared by
Editor j. D. Legare, of The Southern
Agriculturist of Charleston, S. c., to
be decidedly the best plantation that
he had ever visited Here raising of
cane and the manufacture therefrom
of strip and sugar gave the most salts
factory results.
"Sir Charles Lyell, the distinguished
English geoIogist and scholar, who Wis
tied Hopeton in 1916, bore testimony
to the successful management of the
plantation in every detail
"The cotton and rice industries after
the war SO absorbed the interests of
the people of southern Georgia, that
the cultivation of sugar cane was neg
Iected, and the magnificent sugar mill,
once so successfully operated by Mr.
Copper, was allowed to fall into ruins
and few years ago the machinery was
sold for scrap iron.
"This noted plantation is in Glynn
county, five miles by water from
Darllen, sixteen by land from Bruins
wick and fifteen miles from the Allan
tic ocean.
''Our excuse for speaking again OF
sugar cane and cassava is that the only
way to arouse people to action on any
line is to continue appealing to them
and keeping them ever reminded OF
those things which pertain to their
prosperity. The late convention at
Brunswick has aroused q spirit of in
quiry manifested by letters received by
the department of agriculture con
corning both sugar cane and cassava.
when, then, farmers of southern
Georgia go extensively into the Guilt
walton of these two important crops,
sugar mills and starch factories will
join the cotton mills in giving employ
ment to thousands and adding to the
wealth and greatness of the Empire
State of the South.
Elaboration should follow exhortatIon
and line upon line and precept upon
precept be added, until every industry
in Georgia has been established upon
an enduring basis. We do not advise the
planting of large areas il cassava until
proper tests have been made. But we
do uge our farmers, as far as possible, to
plant small patches of it and make a
thorough test of its adaptability to
south Georgia"