The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-12
For the Good of
 the Community

w Alabama since the early settlement of the state it has not been given the atten- tion that it's importance and it's posslolll- ties demand. In the year 1919 the state of Alabama gathered crop of cane that yielded about eight and half million gal Ions of syrup valued at approximately S1O,O00,000.
 It is claimed that the yield per acre, in value, is greater than any other crop grown in the state, and that the Alabama crown cane is richer in sugar contents than that of the rich lands of Louisiana, which have heretofore been considered the best in the country for sugar cane.
 This crop is coming into more and more favor in Alabama in recent years and with the present rate of progress 1t will be one of the leading agricultural crops in a few years more.
 Dr. William c. Stubbs, director of the Louisiana sugar experiment station, after a tour of inspection of the cane belt of South Carolina, South Georgia, North Florida and South Alabama, made this report
 "A recent visit to the canegrowing regions of South ern Alabama and Florida has convinced me of the adaptabity of these sections to the success1ul grow ng of sugar and the manufacture of sugar when the intelligent and progressive practices of the beet sugar producing countries universally adopted The soil and climate of this section are favorable to the growing of evidenced by the splenolo patches sometimes increasing to small fields or P pan- ations found everywhere throughout this belt These numerous obiect-lessons demonstrate, beyond cavll, that if progressive agriculture be adopted by which the proper preparation of the so fertilization and cultivation of the plant, together with rotation ln- cuding some eguminous crops at short intervals, be secured, that these sections can successfully make sugar and syrup in competition with the world.
 'The numerous samples of sugar-cane grown in these sections and forwarded to last season show by analysis to be greatly superior in sugar content to that grown upon the auvial lands of Louisiana Ihls increased saccharine content IS of vital importance 10 the manufacturer of sugar and soon as deonstra ed by one two local factories, Will cause capltasts from every direction to speedily erect central factor es throughout the belt for the purchase or cane ana the manufacture of sugar..
 Professor R. E. Blouin stated the average summary to be as follows:
 Iouisiana canes s.............. 12 per cent sugar Hawaiian canes .-.-..l li per cene sugar Cuban canes 10 per cehI sugar Georgia-Alabama cane 10 per cent sugar Florida canes 10 per ceht sugar
 Dr. Stubbs states that he found the sugar cane of south Alabama, north Florida and south Georgia to yield from sixteen to thirty-five tons per acre, and from 225 to 240 pounds of sugar per ton of cane. Taking the minimum of 225 pounds of sugar per ton of cane with an average yield of twenty tons of cane to the acre, the production would be 4,5OO pounds of sugar to the acre. s.
 The estimated cost of sugar cane plant ing per acre, extending over period ot six years, including blowing and disclng, cost of seed on ground, planting and fer tilizing, cultivating and fertilizing, and cost of fertilizer, to be: First year, S92.5O; second year, s37.5O; third year, S37.5O; fourth year, S3750; fifth year, S37.5O; sixth year, $37. 50, making total of $28O for the six years.
 The yield the first year was twenty-five tons of cane, five tons silo feed and 500 gallons of syrup, and for the six-year ,,or;od 175 tons of cane 35 tons of SilO