The leader., 1903-11-18
Yield Of Sugar Cane in Pine
lands.

Mdg lasIlseai Fleld OF sugar Zane IN Pin
Lands.
MI. j. Fl. isouslog, the Indus
trial and immigration Agent 0
THE Gnlf and Ship Island Railway
is enthusiastic over a report of
sugar cane experiment made nea
Bonds, on the line of the railway
Messls. III. G. and S. A. Car.
planted fifteen acres of land, from
which the pines had been cut, ii
ribbon sugar cane. The result il
q magnificent field Of sugar cane Il
feet high, with rich, juicy stalks
over 9 feet high, which will b.
fully Z feet high by grinding
time. It is e s m a e {
that the cane will yielc
600 gallons of syrup to the acre.
or 5000 gallons. which if whole
sailed at 40 cents gallon would
bling return of $4,000, or $24C
an acre. The expenses of fertil-
izing, cultiyating and manufacture
ing will amount to 81 900. OF
this amount 5000 was spent for
fertilizers, cotton seed meal, acid
phosphate and kainit, and for seed
cane ard $500 on cultivation and
manufacture. The expenses de-
Quoted from the gross proceeds
would leave a net 50, 900, or in
round numbers $175 per acre.
This is a very conservative esti-
mate and doubtless the actual re-
suits will be one-third greater than
the estimate.
It is Mr.. Bouslog's plan to have
a portion of the syrup canned at
the canning factories and if this,
too, proves successful, he will try
to induce other settlers to plant
cane with a view to having it can
ned for market.
1t is claimed that the open kettle
syrups made by the farmers
throughout south Mississippi are
superior to the syrups manufac-
tured by tile big sugar refneries
where chemicals are used for
bleaching the sugars and the
syrups. Then, too, there is
happy medium of boiling in the
country by which Che syrup will
keep, and neither turn to sugar
nor sour, but it takes an artist
in the work to understand this
perfectly.
There is millions in this project
if successfully carried out. In
fact, this is poor mans country,
and the one who fails to make a
competence and mere is either dis
abled, sick, or dislikes work. For
the man who will dig there are
bags of gold at the end of the rain
bow in Mississippi.
oouslog also has some
spIehaid ears of corn chat grew
near Howison and yielded forty
bushels to the acre on land that
mas been in cultivation for %
years consecutively. The farmer
IS Mr.. R. Broadus.
Land joining Mr.. Broadus'
FARM" said Mr.. Bouslog, "sells
for SIS to $3.50 an acre. Now
compare, if you will, this corn
and with land in the North and
West, where the land sells from
$50 to $3.50 per acre and the corn
sells for about third of what il.
loes here, and in some parts of
The West it is burned for fuel in
extreme cold weather.
After Mr.. Broadus gathered
MS corn he sowed cowpeas, which
made fine crop of hay"
The officers Of the Indiana and
Mississippi Stone and Timber Co.,
Of Indiana, have been down look
ing over their large tracts of fine
timber lands near Star, on the
Gulf & Ship Island r. R., and
during their trip added largely to
their acreage and are making
preparations to begin the erection
Of saw mills of immense proper
tions at an early date.
Mr.. John A. Reed has applied
for patents fol three of his recent
inventions, each one of which is
worthy Of consideration. One is
a steam power cross-cut saw,
which together with an engine
and boilers, weighs only 200
pounds or less, and can be loaded
on any wagon and taken to the
swamps or out in the pine woods,
where it can be set to work and
saw the trees down and then saw
them into the proper lengths. The
little mills are being built here in
the machine shops.
Mr.. Reed has also invented an
attachment f or steam enignes
which does away with much Of
the machinery and makes revers-
ing or the stopping Of an engine
chiid's play. Gulfport Cor. in
Times Democrat.
Mrs. Mary Thompson Howe,
lonlv (lauUhter Of the late BiSlOr