The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-18
SUGAR CANE GROWERS
FINE PRosPECT FOR THE. ANNUAL
 CONVENTION.
Many of the sstste Delegates Have Already Been q. Appointed. for
 ConvenfioP sn January 3S.

The Governors of all the Southern States where cane is grown have either appointed delegates or will ap- point them in the near future.
 The Association meets in Montgom- cry in answer to a cordial invitation sent out by the people of the city. The arrangements for the convention are in charge of a committee composed of Commissioner of Agriculture R. R. Poole, Charles G. Abercrombie. who is one of the vice-presidents of the Asso- citation. and Captain w. D. westcott. Captain D. G. Purse. president of the Association has sent out from his home in Savannah the following circular .let- ter:
 To those interested in. the cultivation
 and manufacture of Cane Syrup in the States of South Carolina, Geor-
 gia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana.
 In 1767, the first sugar cane grown within the present limits of the United States was planted in the vicinity of New Smyrna, on the Halifax River, in Florida. and sugar was manufactured from it.
 In 1906. sugar cane was first plant ed in Georgia, and in 1925 seed cane from this stock was carried to Louis Jana, and Is the base of her best seed cane today.
 In 17S1. Morin. Cuban, made the first sugar manufactured in Louisiana, and Etienne De Bore in 1794 produced it on a commercial basis, the centennial of which event was celebrated in 1894 with considerable eclat.-
 In 1929. on Hopeton plantation, near Brunswick. Georgia, James Hamilton turalist of his day. erected sugar mill for grinding his own sugar cane, of which he was planting from 800 to 800 acres annually and converting 1t into sugar. when Georgia was the rival of Louisiana as a sugar State.
 During the war between the States, 1S61-65, Florida produced large quan- titles of sugar. which was in great de- mand at that time. owing to the block | aded condition nf Southern ports. After the lapse of near a half cen- tury a revival has taken place in this nearly forgotten crop, as a commer- cial industry. and 1t Is to take advan- | tage of this revival that the Interstate l Sugar Cane Growers Association was organized in Macon, Ga. May 6, 1903. | for placing the cane industry again l upon 0 commercial basis.
 The second convention held at Jack | sonville, Fla. May 4-6, 1904, was large- ly attended by delegates from South
 
 Mississippi and Louisiana, the soils and climates of these States being ! equally adapted to the successful cul- tivation of sugar cane.
 The third annual convention has been called to convene at Montgomery. l Ala, January 25th, 28th and 27, 1905. and 1t Is fully expected that this con- vention will show as splendid work as | its predecessors in the results of its | labors.
 In connection with the revival of the cane industry 1t is equally important
 that we confer over methods of eco- nomical manufacture, and the not less | important matter of ready and reliable markets for that part of the manufac- | ture that shall result in tho production | of table syrups, which. on account of climatic conditions. will be the form l in which practically all of the product will be marketed in the northern half of the cane belts of the producing g 1 States.
 Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of Az
 riculture; pr. H. W. Wiley. Chief, Bn- 1 reau of Chemistry, United States De- | partment of Agriculture; Dr.. W. c. 1 Stubbs, Director of Louisiana Sugar Experiment Station, New Orleans, La. 1 Professor B. B. Ross, State Chemist. 1 Auburn. Ala: Professor J. M McCand- less, State Chemist, Atlanta, Ga; Pro-
 lessor W. L. Hutchinson. Director of
 Mississippi Experiment Station; Hon.
 John Dymond, Editor of LouisiaIua
 Planter; Hon. E. J. Watson. Commits I sioner of Agriculture and Immiera- tion. South Carolina; MT. W. B. Rod- | denberry, of Cairo, Ga; Colonel R. R. Poole, Commissioner of Agriculture. | Alabama, and other distinguished
 speakers will be present and address
 the convention.
 The aim of the committee, in select ing speaker sand essayists for the oc-
 casion, has been to make it educational
 in every branch of the subject. and
 historical in the evolution of every su- gar-producing plant within the limits | of the United States, upon the broadest lines of thought experience and actual | results.
 The composition of the Convention. l to make it thoroughly representative.
 will consist of delegates as follows:
 Five delegates from each county or 1 parish in each State, name dabove, ap- l pointed by the Governor of the State. Each sugar cane planters associa-
 tion is entitlde to five delegates: each | asricultur6 association, five delegates:
 each comm ercial organization, five del- 1 egates; industrial departments of rail- | roads, two delegates each; and each State agricultural department. two delegates.
 Besides the delegates who will com prise the convention, an invitation is | extended to the manufacturers of syrup and sugar machinery to be pres- ent at the convention, where ample ar- rangements will he afforded for bring ing them in close touch with pro- ducers of cane and itts manufacture, for iuterchanging views looking to the | adaptation of machinery to the pres ent needs of the cane industry in the most of the States comprising the con- vention and for exhibits of machin- cry.
 1 The convention has been called to ! assemble in the commodious quarters of the Commercial and Industrial As- sociation at Montgomery, Ala, Jam uary 25, 26, and 27, 1905, at 10 o'clock
 The railroads traversing the several Sttates comprising the convention have published a rate of one fare plus twenty-five cents, for round trip to the convention, and tickets will be on sale several days in advance of the as- sembling of the convention, at all rail- road ticket offices in the territory l named.
 Committees of the Commercial and Industrial Association will arrange for accommodations in hotels and private boarding houses at moderate rates for all delegates and visitors to the com vention. Further information can be had along this line by addressing Mir. L.. IL. Gilbert, Secretary of ComrAercial and Industrial Association, Montgom-