The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-04-14
THE CONVENTION A SUCCESS.
Many Able Addresses at Brunswick.
Congressman Brantley's Letter a
Feature.

Many Able Addresses at Brunswick.
Congressman Brantley's Letter n
Feature.
Brunswick, April 13.-Among the no
table speakers at the Cassava conven-
ton not mentined in my dispatches
yesterday, were Captain D. G. Purse,
whose address, was full of sound logic
and contained some valuable advice
to farmers generally. Industrial Agent
l. c. Wade, of the Southern railway,
Prof. H. E. Stockbridge, of the Florida
experimental station, and Major G. M.
Ryals.
Short addresses were also made by
Mr.. F. d. Aiken, president of the
Brunswick Board of Trade. w. l..
Glessner, commissioner of the Georgia,
Southern and Florida railroad, G. M.
Jardine, of Nichols, Ga, Harmon Ben
ton agricultural of the Central Rail-
Ioad of Georgia, and last. but not least,
by Col. Charles Porter Goodyear, OF
Brunswick.
The convention was a success, be-
yond the most sanguine expectations.
Secretary Wilson before leaving for
Washington said:
Il never saw a more earnest meet
ing in my life or one calculated to
more good for. its section. / am de-
lighted to have had the privilege of
participating in the deliberations Of
the convention and the day has been
a most pleasant one for me.
A feature of the convention proceed
ings was the letter OF Congressman
Brantley. 1t was as follows:
MIR. BrantIey's Letter.
Mr.. c. p. Goodyear. President Cane
and Cassava Convention: l beg to
acknowledge your recent letter, invit-
ing me to attend a cane and cassava
convention to be held in the city of
Brunswick on April IL. and to express
my sincere regret that / am unable
to accept same. My official duties W i'll
deny me the pleasure of attending your
convention, Notwithstanding an earn
est personal desire upon my part to
do so.
l hope that you may have a large
attendance from all over South Geor-
gia, and that much and lasting good
may result from the discussions had
in the convention. l believe that there
are great possibilities for South Georgia
in the cultivation of both sugar cane
and cassava. and the efforts of the
Board of Trade of Brunswick to bring
these possibilities to the attention OF
the people deserve to be most highly
commended.
The purest, best and most whole
some table syrup in the world is the
Georgia cane syrup, and when our peo-
pie learn to make it of a uniform
grade of the best quality, the profits
to come from its manufacture will
greatly increase the revenues of our
people. Aside from the difficulty of
making a quality of syrup that will
INT oil N and rA1IrifV in
warm weather, the great difficulty in
marketing it grows out of the want
of uniformity. Commerce cannot rely
upon it, A dealer building up trade
on one shipment of our syrup received
by him has no assurance of satisfying
his trade with the next shipment he
receives, for he is more than apt to
receive an entirely different quality of
syrup.
Such questions as these are profit
able ones for discussion by your con-
vention, and their discussion by those
competent to deal with them must re-
suit in increasing the store of knowl-
edge of our people.
To Get syrup Station.
In this connection, it may not be
amss for me to advise you that those
of us in Washington interested in this
question hope that when the agricul-
tural appropriation bill is reported to
the House il will contain an appropria-
ton for a syrup experimental station
in South Georgia. Should we obtain
the appropriation it will be used for
the purpose of determining the soil
best adapted to cane, the best variety
of cane for our uses and the best and
most economical way of cultivating il.
A syrup refinery will also be estab-
lished for the purpose of illustrating
by scientific methods the best way of
making syrup, and a way that all our
farmers can adopt, and, by adopting,
all make the same grade and quality
of syrup, and in this way, obtain
the uniformity in manufacture that is
so much to be desired.
l beg to call attention also to the
deep interest that has been and is be-
ing manifested in this subject in our
behalf by Secretary Wilson of the De-
partment of Agriculture, and DR..
Wiley, chief of the Bureau of Chemis-
try in the Department of Agriculture.
Both these gentlemen thoroughly ap-
preciate and understand our situation,
and are sincerely DESTROYS of aiding us
TO the fullest extent in bringing about
the highest possible development of
our great cane syrup resources.
Cultivation of Cnssava.
The cultivation of cassava is none
the less important to our people than
the cultivation of cane, and 1t is in
fact regarded by many, and perhaps
Justly so. as being even more import
ant than the cultivation of cane. II
it be true, as we have been advised by