Year: 1879

mOng liberal men 10 every one we lost.


AMBER CANE


B. W. May, writes from Window, to
the Wells Advocate, as follows, con-
cerning the growing of Amber cane:


There is il demand at and near home
for i'll that has been made here rs yet;
it is generally sold to the merchants at
from 50 t. 65c per gallon by the barrel.
The best syrup retails ut IS to 8Oc per
gallon. Cane poorly handled, cut, and
left exposed to gather dirt that our
prairie winds are often ladened with,
the butts let drop on the ground when
cutting, taking little soil with them,
not little Of which will be found on
them when the cane is worked, and will
color the sap; and what is yet worse,
the cane to get frosted and soured, be
it ever so little, it will make III infer
ior grade of syrup and that which
would not granulate; it much soured it
won't pay the expense OF working, and
is really worthless. Cane that is fro
zen can be worked upas soon as it thaws
and before fermentation sets in will
make us good syrup as though never
frosted, for aught have discovered.


The climate and soil Of this State
seems well adapted to the raising of
this amber cane, if it can he planted
early with safety, and if the season is
of ordinary lengtH, it will get ripe in
time to get it out of the way of Jack
frost. If frosts are looked for early in
the fall and the farmer is forced to cut
the cane little green, it will then make
good syrup. Our falls are very favora-
able for working the cane, cool enough
SO that it remains sweet even though
corded or shocked up for six or eight
weeks waiting its turn to the mill.
The farmers who raised cane here, are
we'll sati~fied with the result, and many
of them are DESTROYS that should EN-
large my manufacturing capacity that
larger acreage might be planted next
season, with the assurance of getting
it worked up into syrup and sugar. l
think there would be one hundred and
possibly two hundred acres of cane
raised next season in this vicinity if /
only made preparations to manufacture
on so large i scale


WINDOM AND THE SOUT1fElIN MINNIE


Sofa.


The Window Reporter, of last week,
gave up 4 considerable portion of its
space to considering the question of Sc
curing the Southern Minnesota at that
pl.ce A writer from Mountain Lake
says:


Jackson, the county seat of Jackson
county, CAN afford, and will, if she con-
si1ers her own interest, join with Win
dom in this move. Complete the South
ern Minnesota road to Heron Lake
Jackson will lose the county seat. Con-
tinue it to Window and the county seat
is fixed fact at Jackson, where It now
is. If the Southern Minnesota is to
| pass through Murray and Pipestonp
counties the route by Window is equal
to the route by Heron Lake.-The ter.
minus of the road is now at Jackson,
on the east side Of the river. Let 1t be
continued to Window. following the
Des Moines river on the east side. AT
Window it is thought that lease could
be obtained OF the st. Paul & Sioux
City road. to cross the river or their
bridge, which would save the building
of a new one. This is done more or les?
all through the East by different rail
roads. It would seem that the st. PAN
& Sioux City road could make but little
if amy objection to where the Southern,
Minnesota should cross their line. The
opposition must come let it cross where
it may.