The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-26

lessor Ross that he could not be among strangers. Moreover, two members of the Alabama delegation in Congress- Judge Richardson and Congressman Wiley were close personal friends of his He was pleased to be among the cane-growers and to be present at theIr discussion of The economic principles of farming, a subject which was of the highest importance.
 Millionaire Farmers.
 The only people who were in farm ing for fun that he knew of were a few millionaires. There was plenty of fun and plenty of sentiment in farm ing. Dr. Wiley said, but the men who were farming were not doing it for sentiment and fun, but to make a liv- ing.
 He spoke modestly of his work and the work of other men in laboratories, but, after all, they had done no great | things. The men who did great deeds were the men who produced the things that the world was obliged to have. We could do without chemists," said Dr. Wiley; we could even do without educators and some of us have | succeeded in doing without religion, | but we must have food and in times like this when a blizzard is raging we | must have some little clothing"
  sumption of syrup was largely local. He suggested that the greatest work | before the syrup producer at the pres ent time was the widening of his mar ket. He doubted that single can of Georgia or Alabama syrup could be bought in Washington store and yet | if the syrup had been introduced, if l the people of the North had known the value of the syrup as Dr. Wiley did, | { Nl,..g gl T R.Nv. k. that the one thousandth part of it could not be supplied. He suggested Ethat some organization be formed to carry forward the propaganda, to widen the market for syrup AduIteratiOn of Syrup. Dr. Wiley alluded to his work in de- tecting and suppressing the adultera- tion of food especially the adultera- tion of maple syrup. He had. he said, been raised in the heart of the maple syrup producing region. At present he said the largest forest of maple trees in the world was in Chicago. He declared that more alleged maple syrup was produced in Chicago than could be grown on all the trees in the United States. To produce the amount of so-called pure maple syrup shipped out of Chicago would require forest of trees that would complete | room for a single building. | He was not, he said, opposed to glucose as a food. It was in fact a healthy food, but he was opposed to people putting up glucose labelling 1t and selling it as pure maple syrup. He paid a high compliment to sugar as a food. It was, he declared | splendid emergency ration. He ventured the assertion that if the 1 pockets of the Japanese who were en- gagged in the assaults on Port Arthur were searched the result would be that each of them would have been found to have a supply of sugar He would not say that man could live by sugar alone. It gave heat and energy, but it did not build up tissues
 The cotton market could be flooded, Dr. Wiley said. as had been proved, but it was a difficult matter to flood the sugar market. The consumption of sugar, he said, was increasing much more rapidly than the population of the United States.
 In closing Dr. Wiley said the ques- tion before the syrup maker was his market while the question of the sugar producer was not the marketing of his crop, but the making of it.
 A question by J. J. Bridges of Ala bama started an interesting discussion as to the value of fertilizers of vari- ous sorts between Dr. w. C.~Stubbs of Louisiana and W. B. Roddenberry of Georgia.
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