The Ocala banner., 1922-09-01
SUGAR IN FLORIDA AT LAST

Florida has said so much about /
making sugar on q commercial scale. +
al through the past generation. that /
Il had begun 10 be cause fcr 4 smile /.
vAen any ona spoke of starting su-
gar Mill in this STATE. Nov it appears /
that sugar is going 20 be made, whige
granulated sugar. IN commercial guam
-i.ies. this fal. and down II ire edge
= eEe famous Flost5a Ese-sla5ss.
TIE To-v Lau3ersal4 Sentn=. says
IN part.
Foundations ana walls for the
boilers were finished last weak. 1Z5.-
90) bricks having been laid. The
granulaeor or sugar-drying machine,
has been installed. Laying Of cement
floors is the only part OF construction
a 0rk remaining 10 be done other than
20 make sacA adjustments OF the ma
chinery IS the test run uay snow to
Dc necessary.
Grinding G cane viii begin at 3
date ye- . b fixed Analysis q th4
sugar oane : made everE two weeks
by Chemis. Y. P. Jernigan, q Florida
man. who worked as chemist il Gu
ban mills for many years. The aualy-
ses show that the cane is right now
in its best condition for grinding. al
though II IS not equal to the Cuban
cane al the Cuban grinding season.
Later in the season the sugar content
Of the Palm Beach county cane viii
be higher than the Cuban standard.
The Sentinel is speaking OF the ac-
complishment of the Florida Sugar
and Food Products Company. at its
Canal Point mill, in Palm Beach coun-
~.
4 particularly encouraging part OF
the story is that the Canal Point su-
gar mill will make the commercial
standard granuiated sugar, right from
the cane and in it's own sugar house.
instead of producing raw sugar and
selling it TO the refneries in North
or somewhere else, as has so long
been the custom in Louisiana and
Cuba.
State Chemist R. E. Rose has for
many years been urging the complete
manufacture Of standard granulated
sugar al the plantation mill He has
in brochure after brochure and article
after article shown The superior iuan- +
cial advantage 10 be derived from I
this method. both by the cane grower /
and the sugar mill owner. He has
pointed out that it is far cheaper 10
produce sugar in standard CONNER /
cial grades directly from the cane al
the mills than it IS TO produce IL in
The raw. and supplement the process {
0y refining al distance. The best /
sugar authorities in Louisiana and
Cuba are now agreed thar there is
more sugar per ton OF cane, and more
money per Ton OF sugar. from that
converted directly at the sugar mills +
into the standard product OF CONNER
cial requirement than in any other
process or combination of processes
now known.
Florida is the potential sugar bowl .
OF the world. 1t will yet produce the /
dependable balance OF sugar which F.
this country will need Florida cane /
sugar will yet become the standard OF
excellence and be made the basis of
reports AMI statistical information.
What the sugar beet has been TO some
OF the western states. the Florida
sugar cane will be TO the eastern part
of the country, and to the sugar con-
sumers of the world.
The Tribune takes delight in the
expectation that Florida will be max
ing its own standard granulated sugar
before Thanksgiving day arrives. It
urges that, on that day. special note
Of thanks be injected into the program
because of Florida's long-looked-for.
and at last arrived, emancipation
from the fog of prejudice against its
sugar-making possibilities-Tampa