The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-25
CANE CONVENTION
TO DRAW A CROWD
4 WIDESPREAD INTEREST
SHOWN NOT ONLY in SOUTHERN
STATES but ALL OVER COUNTRY.

0Efeers OF Associations Receiving
Many Letters Asking for IhfOrma-
ffon-COnvention to Be Held in
Jacks0nviI1e May 4=5-6=Secretary
james wilson of Department of
Agriculture TO BE one of Speakers.
Experiments Being Made i'm Man
ufactare of Besasse - Louisiana
Cotton CROP Forty-Ffve Days
Ahead OF Season.
The second convention of the Inter-
state Sugar Cane Growers Associa-
ton. which viii be held IN Jackson
Vile May 4, and 6, promises to be
much larger than the first which was
held in Macon last May.
This is the view Of Capt. D. G. Purse,
president of the association, who
has returned to the city from a trip
of over 5000 miles. He found the
interest in the convention genera
wherever he went, and found also that
both the number of people who will
attend and the number of exhibits that
will be made, viii be much greater
than before.
Some idea of the Importance and
| scope of the convention may be gath
| cred from the fact that among the
many distinguished persons who will
| attend and read papers at its sessions
are Secretary James Wilson. of the De-
| partment of Agriculture; DIR. H W.
| Wiley, chief Bureau of Chemistry, same
| department; DR.. William c. Stubbs, dl-
rector Louisiana Sugar Experiment
| Station; Prof 3. B. Ross, state chem
| list of Alabama; Prof, r. e. Rose, state
| chemist of Florida; Prof. H. G. White,
chemist University of Georgia.
Inquiries Being Made.
Many inquiries are being received
| daily from those who are interested
| In the COW ention, and who wish to
| attend its sessions. To these a circus
| lar letter is being sent, showing the
! Special Rates that will be allowed by
| hotels ana boarding houses, and stat
| Ing that railroads Will allow a rate of
| one fare plus 25 cents for the round
| trip. Any further information de-
sired can be secured by addressing
| either Mr.. Charles H. Smith, secretary
| of the convention at Jacksonville, or
Capt. D. G. Purse, the president, at
Savannah.
In addition to the many exhibits al
ready mentioned as PLANNED for the
convention there Will be complete
| plant for the making of Sugar and
| syrup, which will be put in place by
| the Blymyer Iron Works Company OF
Cincinnati. This firm furnished the
| government the machinery for the
plant at the experimental station at
| Wayeross, a plant that has proved so
| satisfactory that the government pur-
| poses spending some $4,000 more on
| improvements and additions to it.
Exhibits 10 BE Made.
Other exhibits Will be samples of the
sugar made at the place of COIN Bros,
A1nst erdam, in Decatur county, GeeF-
CHA! and cardboard made of begasse
The interest in the product of begasse
is very great because of the possibili-
ties of that product. 1t is believed
that this can take the place not only
Of straw board, of light board and OF
leather In many cases; Sat that it may
also be Used exclusively in electrical
work for insulating. Further, under
the auspices of the national govern
n1ef1t; experiments have been made in
the Manufacture Of Besasse into pa
per that will be an acceptable substi-
tute for that now made from spruce
pulN.
This experiment was made at the
| Cumberland mills, Portland, Me-, and
| resulted in the product of a white pa
per much resembling bond paper and
| of a splendid textile strength. The
experiment is 50 clearly success that
| the question now seems only the modi-
fftation of machinery for the economic
cal rnafiiifaeture of the material. The
more enthusiastic of those who have
| watched the Development of uses to
| Which bsgasse can be put believe that
| it Will be in a short time as valuable
| as cotton seed.
Making pure syrup.
Among the cities visited by Capt
Purse on this trip were Chicago,
| Washington, Pittsburg, Indianapolis,
| Cincinnati, Baltimore, Philadelphia,
| New York, Boston, Fall River, At
ianta, Birmingham, Chattanooga and
| Montgomery. While in Washington
he called on Secretary Wilson of the
Department of Agriculture, who again
called attention to the necessity of
| manufacturers OF syrup making pure
syrup and boiling it to a uniform
grade.
| Secretary Wilson also stated that
| the planters OF cotton IN louisiana
| had followed this season his sugges.
ton that they plant their cotton six
| weeks earlier than usual to avoid the
ravages Of the boil weevn, with the
| result that the cotton crop in that
| state will be some forty-fve days ear