The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-27

tlEtu OCNh indititdiuSu d8dluSt COtOTG0 foods. Colored butter was in such general use in America that no one expected any other kind. but in Europe there was no market for colored but. ter. The Europeans would have none but the purest butter. The crusade was bearing fruit In the expensive and luxurious hotels like the, St. Re- gis in New York they were using only pure butter, butter for which they paid a dollar pound.
 Standard for syrup.
 pr. Wiley had with him a box con- taining twenty little bottles each of g. different colorins from the rest and each filled with syrup. He explained that he wanted to present to his hear CTS the idea of the Agricultural De- partment that a uniform standard for syrup should be established. The dis advantage under which the syrup makers had labored in creating a mar ket for their goods was the lack of uniformity, the lack of the ability to assure the purchaser that the syrup was uniform and would come up to the fixed standard.
 The standard proposed for syrup would be similar to that of the metric system in that the original standards would be kept in the department at
 
 standard could be sold in the South for sa each. which would be less than their cost.
 The standard was composed of twen- ty small bottles of the same size, each bottle filled with a different colored syrup and each bottle bearing a num- Der ranging from 1 to 20. Number was completely, white syrup about the color of white glycerine while Number 20 was a dark, rich red. The product of any farmers cane field could be compared with the standard and graded accordingly,
 The soil in Eastern Georgia, with which he was familiar and which was used fortthe growing of cane. was al- most entirely of sand. It was so be- cause the land had probably been the bottom of the Atlantic at one time- Underneath 1t the soil had rich red clay which, if 1t had been on top. would have made 1t as rich as the best Cuban soil. but with the soil as 1t was 1t was necessary to fertilise 1t heavily. In fact it was necessary to give the plant nearly every bit of the food 1t needed through fertilization. It was very fortunate for that section that plants so suitable as cotton and sugar cane had been found for It. He re- minded his hearers that pine trees and sugar cane always went together. Wherever one was found there also was the other found. Both being car- bo-hydrates, required the same sort of soil and the. same sort of climate.
 Repianting Pine Trees.
 The pine trees had brought great riches to the South, but they had been so destroyed by lumbermen that the lands were denuded. The time had ~nfa ion the replanting of trees in the South as we'll as in other sections of the country.
 In closing Dr. Wiley drew attention to the successful experiment made by MT. Yeomans at Waycross in Altering syrup and preventing clarification. To Mir Yeomans and Mir. Givens. both of the Waycross station. Dr. Wiley gave credit for the success of that experi- ment station.
 A rising vote of thanks was extend- ed Dr. Wiley for his fine address on motion of Judge Porter, as well as to Hon. John Dymond and Prof. w. C..
 ''The Needs of Alabama Cane Crow ers," was the timel subject of an interesting paper by J. R. McLendon, oi Naftel.
 He desired, he said. to call the con- vention's attention to a subject which had been near his heart for forty pleasure of chewing sugar cane since 1888, and during that time he had been indentified with the crude meth ods of making syrup.
 Encueragins Cane Growing.
 He rejoiced that he stood in the presence of so many who were thor
  methods of making syrup He would vention had. assembled thirty years ago when he was endeavoring to per- suade his neighbors to enter into the extension of planting of cane and the making of syrup. He spoke of the crude methods of a quarter of cen tury ago when the owner of a cane patch hauled his cane as far as ten miles to a cane mill, an old fashioned wooden mill where the juice was evaporated in such vessels as could be found on the place. usually pot holding ten gallons. He doubted if there was a fifty gallon syrup kettle in the county at that time.
 The farmers were looking to this convention for aid and guidance. They hoped first of all that they could be shown a way to have modern ma chinery. machinery that would extract the highest per centage of juice. The farmers of Alabama needed, too Information and instruction upon the most intelligent method of making syrup. From the convention the farm CTS hoped to get information which would instruct them in making syrup which would not ferment and which would not coagulate as sugar.
 Future Of Alabama.
 The speaker looked forward to the time when Alabama would pass for ward from the making of syrup to the manufacture of sugar. When the re- sources of Alabama had been brought to the surface and developed 1t would be an everlasting disgrace to the State if It's cup of tea could not be sweetened with It's own lump of sugar.
 At the conclusion of MT. McLendon's paper, President Purse suggested that in view of the inclemency of the weather and the desire of some of the members to get home. the program be hurried so that if possible the conven- ton should finish it's business with the close of tho second day.
 He therefore called upon Captain