Investigation of the Scientific and Economic Relations of the Sorghum Sugar Industry: Being a Report Made in Response to a Request From the Hon. George B. Loring (1883) / Chapter Skim
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* It is important to note here, as showing some of the practical difficulties attending the introduction of a new industry, that the farmers charged with the planting of this crop, and naturally confounding it with maize, persisted in planting the seed about 4 inches deep, and in rows 4 feet apart and 4 feet between hills, while in point of fact the seed requires to be lightly covered, only one inch sufficing, and in rows 3 feet apart, the plants only a few inches asunder, or in hills of many seed to the hill.
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The result is very conspicuous in the diminished growth of caue, which, on this tract, is not over 5 tons to the acre, while on otherlaud 7, 8, and 9 tons ure cut on several hundred acres, and as high .as 17^ tons of Amber cane, by actual survey. Ten tons of Amber may probably be a fair average product for this year, as entimated by the superintendent at the early purt of October.
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All we know, at present, is that the sorghum appears to thrive best for sugar on soils not too highly fertilized, and naturally of a light sandy loam. tPor additional statements respecting the Rio Grande plantation and mill, see the letters in the Appendix from Capt.
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Professor Scovell has written us the following letter referring to the partial report, which will be found in the Appendix: CHAMPAIGN, ILL., October 30, 1882. DEAR SlK: I inclose a partial report of our doings at this factory this year.
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Sweuson's reported details of work fully corroborate the results obtained at the Department of Agriculture. One hundred and eighty manufacturers in that State report having made about 350,000 gallons of Amber cane sirup last year, or about 2,000 gallons each.
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He obtained from 15 to 23 gallons of sirup to the ton of cane, weighing 11£ pounds to the gallon, the sirup yielding 4£ pounds sugar polarized 53° of Amber cane, which is the only sort he has worked; has known as high as 21 tons cut to an acre, and states 12 tons as an average. He sold of the crop of 1879 over 50,000 pounds of good " 0 " sugar, which was tested in Boston and New York, and polarized 96 £ per cent.
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II ne faut pas eongera opposer ces deux ve"ge"taux 1'un a 1'autre; ce eerait uu acte de ve"ritable folie; la betterave est indispensable a notre agriculture, et la prospe"rite" de cette plante est lie"e il celle de la production dn pain, de la viande, de la laine, etc.; ainsi qu'a I'am61ioration du sol, on ne peut songer a supplanter ou a remplacer cette pre"cieuse racine. Cependant, pourquoi rejetterait-on sans exameu se"rieux et sans expe"rimentation, par mauvais vouloiret parti pris, un ve"ge"tal dont la richesse saccharine peut venir en aide a la production sucriere ?
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Henry Talcott, president of the company named, was written after his visit to the Kio Grande Sugar Works, and is of special interest from his statements respecting the absence of any ill effects. of frost upon his cane, after repeated sharp freezings.
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C Knight analyzed our mush sugar and finished sugar yesterday in their refinery, and pronounced it the purest and best sugar they ever saw.
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