The Tupelo journal., 1907-11-29

"hCA ~ IA oouo pIOuuCb oidu Wis Do-
partment of Agriculture and Commerce
has been giving special attention. A
great deal has been said of the effort to
can syrup from sugar cane and the sue
cess that has attended the effort. Last
year some attention was paid the put
ting up OF sorghum, and report in this
work made through these columns. A
recent letter, extracts from which fol-
low, goes to show what Mr.. w. Jenner
Brown, of Water Valley, has done, and
is encouraging indeed:
This year have made and sold 200
gallons of syrup at SO cents per gallon.
I could easily have sold 500 gallons by
the present date, Nov. ID, if had had
it. BY this time last year had sold all
of my syrup, 400 gallons, at 40 cents
per gallon, and believe that l could
easily have sold 1000 gallons before
the crop this year was ready to make,
and am confident that if I had it
could sell 1000 gallons more before the
next crop is ready for use. I find a
better sale for sorghum syrup every
year, though as yet have only sold
the syrup at my home town, Coffee
vile, and to the people in the adjoining
neighborhood. I found as ready sale
this year for syrup at so cents per gal
Ion as | did two years ago at 80 cents
and last year at 40 cents, these being
the prices asked and obtained the
last three years respectively. There
seems to be an increasing demand for
the pure country-made sorghum in
preference to the manufactured stuff
that is put on the market under the va
rious names. AS to the putting up of
syrup in cans as you suggest, have
never put up any yet in that way.
use jugs, one-gallon preferably, but I
sometimes use two and three gallon
jugs. The smaller jugs are easier
handled and are not as easily broken as
customers would rather have the syrup
in the smaller jugs because they can
use the syrup before it can undergo any
change. My reason for using jugs in
preference to cans is that l can get
them very much cheaper than cans,
and by exercising small amount of
care the jugs are seldom broken. Very
probably you will wonder why, if I can
get good prices and find ready sale for
| it, l do not raise more of the syrup. 1t
was not until last year that I began to
realize the profit in syrup-making, and
this year on account of the weather
early in the spring and the drouth later
at least per cent. of my crop was I'M
fit for making and was cut for hay.
| My intention is to raise 1000 or proba
bly, $500 gallons next year, and am
! expecting to find sale for all or the
| most of it at home or at my nearest
town. Where one will make good
syrup and live up to guarantee to
make good in cash any that is not good
and does not stay good, he will find no
trouble whatever in selling sorghum
syrup when there is demand for syrup
of any kind"
This letter from Mr.. Brown should
be worth one hundred thousand dollars
to the people of North Mississippi dur
ing the year 1908. II two hundred
farmers in the forty counties interest
ed, or only five to the county, would
make 1000 gallons of sorghum syrup
and handle it properly, it would mean
just 100000 saved at home that now
goes out of the State for glucose COM
pounds in the guise of syrups and mo-
lasses. What would this mean to the
farmer? Figure it out for yourself. 1t
is just such movements as this that the
Department of Agriculture and Com
merce desires to help along. Every
aid possible will be given such under
takings, and the people are urged to
call on the Commissioner with out hest
tation when service can be rendered.
Keep our money at home by raising
what we need here and financial fiurries
will trouble us but little. Let's hear
from others along this line.
Centreville held a flower show on
f.ov. 7 that was said to be a splendid
success. Crystal Springs, Hazlehurst
| anu DuA may w. LII w 1OOh W tuClT
laurels when this healthy competitor
enters the field, for the good people Of
Centreville do not do things by halves.
Mississippi is great flower State, as
has been proven by the numerous
| flower shows held during the past few
years, and the displays at the State
fair for several seasons past.
|
The Tocsin says that the burnt road
just north of Indianola is an unqualified
success and the prediction is freely
made that it is the road for the delta
and all sections where there is gumbo
and buckshot and wood is available for
the burning. The United States de-
partment of agriculture is doing a
splendid work in exploiting this and
other methods of road building in Mis-
sissippi.
The State meeting of the Farmers
Educational and Cooperative Union
will be held in jackson January 2, 3
and 4, just prior to the opening of the
legislative session. Something near one
thousand delegates will be in attend
ance on the meeting.
| The man with nlentv of hou and