The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-05-05
CANE GROWERS In CONVENTION
HEARD MANY ADDRESSES
Proceedings of the First Day of the Gathering
at Jacksonville

Jacksonville. Fla, May 4.-The sec
ond annual convention of the Inter-
state Cane Growers Association met
in the auditorium of the Board of
Trade this morning at 10 o'clock. The
convention was opened with prayer by
Rev. w. E. Boggs, of the First Pres
byterian Church. Former Mayor D. U.
Fletcher, of Jacksonville, delivered the
address of welcome to Florida, which
was responded to by Harvey Jordan,
of Georgia, president of the Farmers
National Congress and chairman of the
Georgia State Committee on Agricul-
ture.
Mayor Nolan delivered an address of
welcome on behalf of the city, with
response by Mr.. Hayes of Mississippi.
The welcome on behalf of the Board of
Trade was by President Garner, with
a response by Hon. j. M. Spence, of
Ware county Ga, a prominent planter
and member of the Georgia Legisla-
ture. The welcome on behalf of the
Florida Agricultural Society was given
by Maj. G.. P. Healy, of Jaffrey, Fla,
with response by r. X. Poole, Com
missioner of Agriculture of Alabama.
The welcome on behalf of the state
man, editor OF the Industrial Record
published in Jacksonville, with re-
spouse by Charles G.. Abercrombie,
banker and planter, Of Montgomery,
Ala.
Georgia was well represented, among
the speakers. Col. Fletcher, Mayor No
Ian, Harvie Jordan, DR.. Spencer and
]. A. HOLMAN, all claiming Georgia
as their former home, and the presi-
dent of the convention, Capt. d. c..
Purse, is a Georgian.
The afternoon session was given to
dentials, the annual address of Presi-
dent Purse, papers on cane culture and
syrup making on the farm, by G. X.
McQuarrie of DeFuniak Springs, and
cane growing by Dr.W. II. Wiley, chief
of the Bureau of Chemistry Of the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture.
Capt. Purse reviewed the conditions
of the syrup market for the past year,
called attention to the cheap molasses
that is being brought from Antigua
and sold in competition with Georgia
syrup and showed samples of sugar
made at the plantation of Cohn Bros.
in Decatur county, and of the paper
and the cardboard that has been made
frf he IN az
ments. He gave figures showing that
with an enlarged market for all parts
of the cane IL would prove more profit
able than cotton.
Referring to syrup, Capt. Purse said:
"In extensive travel over the coun-
try, have yet to meet any one who
has ever eaten pure cane syrup that
does not cherish a yearntng to enjoy
its purity and deliciousness again, and
am constantly pursued by inquiries
from Maine to California and from the
Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. as
to where pure syrup can be had. All
these inQuirers, at some time, have
been driven from the use of cane syr-
up by the vile substitutes that are
palmed off upon the public under the
name of pure cane syrup.
"rhe reputation of cane syrup has
been traded upon and traduced to such
an extent until Chicago syrup manipu-
lators make bold to put upon their
product that 1t contains 10 per cent. of
cane syrup and 80 per cent of corn
syrup (glucose) and l fear their dam
aging example is finding followers at
home, who are casting suspicion and
reproach upon the whole syrup prod
uct of the South. and more than once,
/ have beard my own people renounce
allegiance to Georgia syrup because
they feared to trust its purity any
longer, except when obtained fresh
from the men who make it.
THE syrup maker has an important
part to perform in this struggle to re-
gain old and establish new markets, so
absolutely vital TO his own success. In
the first, place he should boil his syrup
to a consistency science tells him is
more apt to insure freedom from gram
ulatlon or fermentation; secondly. pack