The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-10
Nv VIII T, sheehsn.

To provide a market for syrup every day in the year, to provide market
 where a farmer can drive wagon load
 of syrup and sell 1t just as he would cotton. Such Is the purpose of the
 Southern Syrup Company of Montgom-
 cry.
 This purpose has already been at
 tained. The plant of the company in
 North Montgomery on the banks of the
 Alabama River has been completed and
 opened for business. If farmer has
 syrup to sell he does not have to peddle
 it around among the merchants or the
 housekeepers. He has just the same
 assurance of selling it and getting the
 market price for it as if 1t was a bale
 of cotton.
 This is a vital enterprise, this syrup
 refining business. The company comes
 very near having a place alongside of
 that man who was said to be such a great benefactor to mankind. the man
 who made two blades of grass grow where only one grew before." For
 the future of this company and this plant, a pioneer enterprise in which $25.0O0 has been invested, rests In a 1 large measure upon an increase of the sugar cane field of Alabama The off, cers of this company hope that the | farmers of this State will not only grow | two stalks of cane where one grew be- fore. but they will grow ten or twelve where only one has been grown. They hope that when the possibilities of syrup making in Alabama are thor oughly realized that the industry will go forward in leaps and bounds as 1t has done in Southern Georgia
 At Cairo cane growing and syrup making have increased l,200 per cent. | said President P. J. Williams of the Southern Syrup Company, who Is la miliar with the Georgia cane fields. That increase has been within the past four years. Four years ago 1000 bar rels of syrup were shipper annually from Cairo. This year more than l2,00O barrels are being shipped. Cane can be grown equally as well and syrup can be made equally as cheap in Ala bama as in Georgia. Both States are superior to Louisiana In the making of syrup. The Louisiana cane is grown in lowland and moreover, the saccharine matter is gotten out of the cane juice for sugar before the syrup Is made. The cane juice Is made first to give forth it's sweetness for sugar and then 1t is turned into syrup. AS result or this method the Louisiana syrup, or as 1t is sometimes called, New Orleans syrup, is vastly inferior to the cane syrup made in Alabama and Georgia, and which contains the full complement of Saccharine matter.
 The Georgia and the Alabama cane is upland cane. Upland cane is always sweeter and better for syrup making than lowland cane. The experts of the Agricultural Department who have in vestigated cane growing in the South ern States have in their official reports declared that the Alabama and Georgia cane has much more saccharine matter in 1t than the Louisiana cane.
 And don't forget that the Govern ment reports have declared that the Alabama cane has 2 per cent. more saccharine matter than the Georgia cane" This was William Hart, Sec retary and Treasurer of the Southern Syrup Company who was present at the interview and who came in at this june ture with a timely reminder. T do not know exactly what Is the superiority of the Alabama cane over the Georgia cane, but it exists nevertheless, due, suppose, to a newer soil and to closer proximity to the warm breezes of the Gulf of Mexico"
 This is one of the several things that the Southern Syrup Company wishes to impress upon the farmers of Alabama. That $25,0OO plant in North Montgom- cry is an educative and an educational institution. The company wants to show the farmers of Alabama, and es- pecially the farmers of South Alabama, what good thing the growing of cane and the making of syrup is. The com rany feels confident that to do this it has only to lay the fact, the unadorned facts, before the Alabama farmers.
 The company is greatly interested in the work of the Interstate Cane Growers Association of which Captain D. G. Parse of Savannah, Ga. is Pres ident and which meets in Montgomery January 25, 26, and 27 This Associa- tion after a short existence of only two years has done great things to foster the growing of cane. Its pro- motors believe tha& there is mine of lnestimable richness in the pine land of Alabama, Georgia and other South ern States. Millions ofg acres of these lands have been stripped and laid bare by the lumbermen and the turpentine men. Millions of other acres will be laid bare in the next few years by the axes and the saws of the tiInbermen.
 What shall be done with this denud- ed pine lands?
 Plant them in cane." is the answer of the Interstate Cane Growers As
 And this Association is engaged :n the spreading of q propaganda to show why cane should be grown on the lands of Alabama and Georgia. and es- pecially upon the pine lands. It s shown in the literature of the Associa- tion that the pine lands can grow the richest and best syrup cane in the age of sweetness In the cane of Ala bama is the highest in the Southern States. It is shown that 400 gallons of cane syrup can be produced from an acre of this ground with the same ease as half bale of cotton. And 1t Is de- monstrated that this 400 gallons of syrup should bring the farmer nearly $200 while the half bale of cotton at present prices will bring him but lit tie more than S15.
 The farmer is your true conserva- tive. The farmer who goes into side lines on the farm. who Is given to ex- perimenting is not held in the highest esteem by his neighbors. They look with suspicion upon the experiments and regard the experimenter with cu- riosity or pity. Now this question of growing cane for money -crop-it needs some sort of demonstration. The Cane Growers Association and incidentally the Southern Syrup Company of Mont gomery is willing and anxious to make the demonstration.
 But above all else the Southern Syr- up Company wants it understood that no matter how much cane d man rais- es. no matter how long he wants ta hold it and no matter what part of Al abama he lives in. he can sell 1t on any day of any month in Montgomery.
 Our purpose" said President Will Hams, " Is a two-fold one. We first of all wish to encourage the growing of sugar cane as a second money crop and to do this we offer a market for syrup the year round. Our next pur- pose is to create a market for the syr-