Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-10-19
PLAN OF THE FARM
PRODUCT COMPANY

J. Ralston Cargill, of the Farm Pro
duct Co., has furnished the editor of
the Times Recorder with the follow
ing very interesting article on the
plans of their new concern and val
liable information to the growers and
prospective raisers of sugar cane, and
other products to be used by the COM
pany. The article is:
1t will be the policy of the Farm
Products Company to encourage far
mers to raise sugar cane, sorghum and
feedstuffs.
| By November LIST our plant will be
equipped with automatic machinery
capable of turning out twenty-five
thousand cans of syrup per day ana
to measure up to this capacity it will
be necessary for our Americas plant
to draw on south Georgia, southeast
Alabama and northern Florida for its
supplies.
This initial capacity which we hope
to increase later on, will consume the
output of over five acres of sugar
cane per day. At present there is not
enough sugar cane raised within haul
ing distance of Americas to run our
plant a week. This will give faint
idea of the impossibiIity of over-pro-
duction.
We are not going to advocate the
raising of sugar cane to the exclus-
ion of other important crops, nor will
we advise any farmer to put in too
heavy an acreage to begin with, but
within reasonable limits, the cultiva-
ton of sugar cane will add considera-
bly, to the net income of the farm.
If we find favorable response tol
our suggestion to plant more cane, |
we will be very glad to install COM
plete grinding plant in time for the
season of 1917; it is expected that
those interested will communicate |
with us at least by the time they are
ready to plant seed cane next spring,
Sc that we may prepare to handle the
tonnage they may deliver to the mill.
Such information as we possess re
garding the average cost of produc-
ton, and yield per acre will be freely !!
furnished. 1t may be said in a gen.
eral sort of way that the cost of rails
ing an acre of cane is around sixty
dollars, divided as follows: Seed cane,
$1,000; fertilizer, $4,000; planting and
cultivating, $1,000; land rent, $500;
stripping, topping and cutting, $500;
hauling to mill, $500. This cost will
be reduced the second year by $500
because of not having to replant-the
second years growth will be stubble
cane which frequently yields as heavy
tonnage as the original plant cane.
The Later Charges.
Thereafter, the charge per acre for
seed cane would not exceed $500 per
acre and nothing for the stubble, max
ing an average, year in and year out,
OF $3.50 per acre. The fertilizer item
will vary according to the needs of the
soil; some land is rich in the ingred-
tents necessary to nourish cane. $1,000 |
is probably the average on light soils
of South Georgia, which have a good
clay sub-soil. Possibly the lands in
this section would require even less.
The other items are constant, with |
the exception of land rent.
We cannot stress too strongly the
| importance of careful selection of |
seed cane for planting; the parent
stalk should be from the variety best
adapted to the soil and environment.
1t is our hope to be of assistance in
determining the type of cane that will
give the heaviest tonnage and purest
juice, and by letter, or through the
columns of your newspaper we will
welcome all the information and adj
vice that can be had.
After a long series of experiments
at the Louisiana Sugar Experiment
station, variety known as D.-74, a
Demarrara Seeding, has been adopted
l.,
by the majority of the cane growers
on the large plantations OF that state
This variety is practically unknown
in this section, but the government is
making some experiments with it in