The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-10
GROWING OF SUGAR CANE
 AND MARKETING OF SYRUP
Montgomery Company Whose Purpose It is to Afford Farmers Opportunity to Sell at
 Any Time of the Year.

up after it has passed through ou
 mills. The first is the more difficul
 proposition.
 We have no trouble in introducin.
 the syrup in the markets of the differ
 ent cities: It has only to be show and sampled for it to make its owl
 way. Most of the product of our mil
 we are selling in Texas and Oklahor;
 sell 1t in any Southern or any North
 ern city. Our territory is unlimited The main thing before us is to per. suade the people of Alabama to grow more sugar cane" -.
 MT. Williams is originally from Geor
 gia, where he was for six years in tn, syrup refining business. He came tc MonIgomery and organized the South ern syrup Company, last year, with ar authorized capital stock of si00, ,OO0 ot which s25,00o Is paid in. w F. Vandi. yer. the well known business man ana capitalist of Montgomery is interested in the company and is the company's | vice-president
 The company's mill in North Mont gomery, about 400 yards north of the completed only thirty days ago and since that time 1t has been in opera | uon. The company has not been able to secure sufficient Alabama raised syrup to keep the machinery running | ana much of the syrup they have used mas been shipped from Georgia.
 | our mill said President Williams.
 reduces the syrup to a uniformity. | DiHerent farmers make different sorts ul syrup. one farmers syrup may be very sweet while that of another is watery" '' NOW suppose a farmer has syrup to sell He brings 1t to us and we take d sample of 1t as man would take a sample from bale of cotton. We pay him the market price and then reboil the syrup. In boiling 1t again we make frequent tests of it until 1t reaches the standard of our mill" one difficulty the farmers have ex- perienced in the selling of their syrup heretofore has been the fact that the syrup dld not always come up to the standard of the samples that were shown. All our syrup Is the same. We se sen It to merchants with the guarantee that It will reach that standard. All or our syrup, is of one color and of one consistency. '-
 Another difficulty the farmers have experienced, is that while their syrup will keep all right during the winter months 1t is more than likely to fer. ment during the summer months Our syrup, that Is the syrup that passes through our mill, keep month in and month out, just as well in the summer been reboiled and brought to a unifor- mlty 1t is packed in air tight cans. ready for shipment and ready to be stored Tor months and months.
 our plant has a capacity of 100 bar rels a day. While we have been fore ed to draw on Georgia this year for much or the syrup we have used the time will come and come soon when the cane fields of Alabama will give us all we need. The lands of south and east Alabama are if anything better than the Georgia lands. I am told that me cane grows on the prairie lands aoout Montgomery, although I am not so familiar with the prairie lands as I am with the pine lands But last fall l saw here in Montgomery some very me sugar cane stalks, as fine as could De grown anywhere and I was told that they were grown on the prairie lands"
 The old idea that cane had to be planted on bottom lands and at the heads of branches and small streams has been exploded. There never was anything in 1t. In fact cane does bet ter on uplands. if they are of the right sort than it does on the bottom lands and the upland cane Is superior in saccharine matter to the bottom cane"
 Will not the introduction of the modern cane grinding and syrup mak ing machinery as they have it in Bald win County not affect your business?" MT. Williams was asked.
 Not at all. not at all." he responded. Our principal business is giving the farmer a cash market for his syrup all the year around. It does not make any difference with what sort of maehi- nery he makes 1t. The farmer can not be a merchant any more than the merchant can be successful farmer It Is our business to find a market for the syrup and we are devoting all our time to that purpose. Moreover, the farm CT has to have some central point where he. can ship his syrup even as the farmer has central point for shipping his cotton. It is our business to buy the syrup and it is our business to know where We can sell it."
 The growing of cane and the making of syrup is being fostered in every possible way. The leading farmers and the most thoughtful farmers are advocating the extension of that in dustry. And the remark of Commits sioner Poole comes to mind: "It is a great thing, he said, "a great thing Every acre put in sugar cane means an acre less in cotton"