Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-10-08
SUGAR B0ILINGS.

/
by many authorities, and its value in
dollars and cents to this section would
BE- inestimable. 1t would be a great
step along lines of diversifcation,
and undoubtedly and Enthusiastically
the south must get away from the
sole crop of cotton.
In his column in the Macon Tele-
graph, Observations and Comments"
MIR. James Galloway, has the following
article along this line:
1.-THE late Col. Pendleton always
commended that it would pay to estab-
lish sugar plants in Southern Georgia.
And concerning this he wrote the
following editorial. which appeared in
The Telegraph, Nov. 81, 1912:
"Adcorindg to our correspondent at
Townsville, persons down there are
wondering why the people of South
Georgia refer to syrup boilings as
sugar boilings.'
1T may be said in explanation, that
before the War Between the States
transportation form the sugss- rarms
in Louisiana to the heart of South
Georgia was a problem which forced
the planters to make their own sugar.
And during the titantic struggle of the
sixties it was a more serious question
to get the white granulated sugar now
in so common use The writer has
seen as pretty brown sugar made in
South Georgia has ever sweetened a
cup of coffee. 1t was made on every
form in those days. The making of
sugar was the rule, and syrup the ex-
ception, because they had the pure
drip molasses to use on the table and
to feed to the negroes; but yet every
planter made his key of syrup for
family use. There were sugar boil
ings' in those days, and there are
some yet
Some eight or ten years ago the
late Dan G. Purse, of Savannah, made
ali effort to establish sugar plants in
South Georgia. He came near sue
ceeding Government chemists by his
seeking made test analysis of South
| Georgia cane and Louisiana cane, and
| it was demonstrated that the Georgia
product contained 20 per cent 1--WE
i think it was) more of surcrose than
: the Louisiana product. Surcrose is
the element in the cane juice that pro-
duces sugar Capitalists became in
terested and were about to make the
experiment. DR.. Wiley, the famous
chemist and food expert, with several
assistants, were induced to come to
South Georgia in the month of Novem-
Der to examine conditions and make
recommendations While on their tour
there came the heaviest freeze known
in Georgia at that time of the year.
None has been known like it since, at
least. 1t killed all the seed cane. 1t
gave the undertaking black eye. DR..
Wiley said it was too cold in Georgia
for the sugar industry; that it would
pay to pursue the syrup-making for
market, but that the sugar experiment
would be hazardous. OF course that
ended it.
"The Telegraph was taking great
interest in the Purse scheme, and in
vain did it protest that the freeze was
an uncommon thing, and the seed cane
had also been killed in Louisiana.
| but the capitalists backed out"
"In counties of South Georgia, es-
pecially Lowndes, Brooks, Bullock
and Ware, sugar making was the rule,
but in southwest Georgia, in Sumter,
Dougherty, Mitchell, Randolph, Ter
rell and adjoinin gcounties syrup max
ing was the rule. OF course sugar
was made for home use. But the syrup
was source of money. The Confed-
crate government bought it in great
quantities, and in the summer time it
was quite acid, as old soldiers will
remember. The syrup was part of
the ration of soldiers stationed at
army posts 1t was issued to the