Show A comprehensive ARTICLE on OB the subject of sugar making SALT LAKE CITY january 28 1888 editor desmet dejerez news I 1 notice in your last evenings issues lse an extract from a letter from Bro brodner jacob F gates now on a mission to the sandwich islands in which abich he be writes on the sugar question its as follows knowing Know ipg the greater facilities we have here on the island of cheap labor a continuous season suitable f for or culi ti and manufacture and the greater tonnage per acre on account of el the superior quality of land and kind of cane and knowing how barely possible it ties has been with all these advantages with the best beat of modern machinery for many of the plantations here to keep kanj the their r heads above water d urine during the past depression in the price of sugar I 1 can hardly hadly ha believe after this that his bis estimates wei e correct perhaps there is money in the manufacture of sugar from the amber cane but I 1 have been led to doubt abt 1 it t f for 0 r 8 several everal re reasons as 0 ab nb first cane soon impoverishes the land so that after a very few crops tile the yield beld on the best ot of soil is very small smail wis this is my experience and observation on en our land in the southern part of utah second ali ah cane grown in utah matures but a few weeks at most before frost and must be worked up within that thai time or it will get frosteg frosted and sour it might be suggested that machinery could be put up that would work up the entire crop within this time but a little computation will soon prove to anyone that machinery required for fop such a purpose would cost coat vastly too much to justify it lying idle ten months or more during the t year brother gates thinks the estimate for making sugar here at five cents per pound cannot be correct because on the islands they can hardly keep their heads above water with what he claims the greater facilities they have there I 1 have long ago looked into this matter and obtained information from persons persona who have managed plantations theresac there ther esad and can therefore answer his objections with regard toll to cheap labor the islands nave have no DO advantage it is true theuay only one third the pt ice but a white man here willbo will do three times as much work as a native will do there continuous season suitable for cultivation it is true the islands lauds have a continuous season and the e cane ane crop takes advantage ot of it and aad grows on for ever thus causing a continuous cultivation of f from rom eighteen to twenty months for a crop or from july to the second january under circumstances where the grass and weeds grow days to the year the that means from to days cultivation for a crop which is from to t ih days more than sorghum requires require for a crop bf borgh sorghum U in can bp be daiset and worked up into sugar is in days greater to tonnage anage per acre no while the island c cane ane yields 25 to 30 80 tons pey acre re requiring qui ring cultivation tor for say CM days sorghum will yield two crops 12 to 15 tons each iring aring to days cultivation and as the cost of a days work as shown above is about the same the same tonnage of sor gaum hum can be raised for 5 12 or br say oni one half the amount that island cane can and as the sorghum gives to toe tae ton toa from froan to lbs ibs of good sugar guear not needing refining and island cane f from roin to that does need refining the aa advantage vantage is 18 decidedly in favor of the sorghum right eight here let me point out a very great economic advantage which the sorghum has over ever the island I 1 cane and that is in the see seed na produced the island cane has ny 8 seed eed and is therefore ther elore propagated propagate I from cuttings whereas vie seed raised on an acre of sorghum will pay the whole expense of raising the crop up to the point of cutting and ha hawlins tiling to the mill this is an important financial factor which neither the island cane northe nor the sugar beet possesses thus when we make our own here from sorghum we also make our own bacon for which we now pay out be tween three and four hundred thou sand dollars per annum and were we to make our sugar hero from eicher islaub cane which is impossible or s sugar u ga r beet we must either raise grain f for 0 r h hog og feed on other lands and a other ether expense or still continue to pay out the large sum of money before mentioned thus while the islaam planters can hardly keep their heads above water it is not difficult to see how the sorghum planter can reap a tHer ably handsome profit with regard to the planters in the islands having the best of modern machinery they have no doubt the best of modern mathi machinery nery of the ancient kind while explaining to brother gates the cause of the depression pr essien in price of sugar which lie he mentions in his letter I 1 will also show him that the really modern kind of machinery differs very materially from that which he now HOW calls the best the principle of diffusion which has ha been for several years used in europe for toe the manufacture ot of the best sugar has worked a revolution in tile the kind of machinery used the old ponderous and very expensive crushing mill and hydraulic press machinery are set aside and the simple machinery macai nery now for diffusion has taken its place by this process 93 98 per cent of the saccharine properties of the sugar producing plant is easily and readily beadily obtained whereas by the most modern crushing cru shina or pressing machi machinery wery only from 47 to 55 per cent of the saccharine can be obtained this wonderful wonder tul advantage bec secured 1 ared several years ago by the scientists of france germany and i russia and the bounty of one and a halt half cents per pound paid by the two latter countries gave the sugar pro in those countries such an impetus that they have not abot only doubled tb cheh ear per capita consumption at hotie home b but X they have exported vast quantities and in order to the bounty shipped their sugar to the pur purchasing chasin markets in advance of the demand ana have thus clogged the av avenues of f trade I 1 ade apes ir and of course brought al abib a d depression P eq in price ane s s of this principle of diffusion in a acting the saccharine ne from ow clearl clearly demonstrated through toe e govern went ment experiments enles enables me to coe to the front with the business I 1 have been wrestling estline wr with for several years in utah and declare it and show it to be new profitable to make obrown our own sugar as I 1 have before by the tous ton 1 1 I have made shown it to be practicable with regard to the first of blotner gatis gates rea reasons ons nam elythe exhaustion of the soil I 1 dont care care to ire pre eri much argument on this point although I 1 find some practical farmers who lilie myself have made a business of rais ing cane who say that cane is not as hard bard on land as corn is yet vet to cover the exhaustion of the soil I 1 have pro vided aided in my plan of a plantation tw remedies one is to return the chemical constituents drawn by the constituents sclena teaches a and i per peri ence e corroborates and the othe ohe remedy remely isto is to have nt land lo 10 0 o summer fallow half and use half pac ac year and it will not be di buted 1 I practical farmers that this latter r in edy aided by judiciously applied fet fei tili will effectually enable a con planting and aad increase instead of diminish the richness ot of the soil utah ja s p plentifully I 1 I 1 supplied with a variety of f fertilizers v bone dust guano gypsum gap um and phosphates the latter two v i unlimited I quantities the former two amly li aid d bv the energy employed is in battering gattering gat gatt ering them with reg rd to the second reason the bort season for working itis it is true the season here is short comp compared lLred with that of tropical climes but though snort there is as a st ason of some four to eight weeks according to location before frost sets in and during ti ose weeks perhaps tropical enervation might despair but northern energy grasps the situation rolls up its ita sleeves works cont night and and day and produces wonderful results while the man raised under cir cu instances cum stances which do not render this ibis energy necessary feces ary looks helplessly on simply imply wondering boodt ring at the extent of the work accomplished my plan is to secure machinery of capacity sufficient for toe the crop run night and day taking every advantage of vason eason and by so doing a crop of 10 tons can be worked up into 10 ohp nags of sugar in five weeks and aid I 1 would rather he be hurni bun nd d by the fros to make a windup wind up if fany any s s afons ta work than nave to Y vi i h tue tu swarms of rats w ich lu in the bijur i ilard d infest the fields especially during the second crop for aticy aney nest neatia in the d debris bris of weeds weed sand and leaves and live on the cane not dot dalna up one stalk at a time but gnawing into a stalk a litt lift e way and leaving the wound to sour the whole juice in it while they attack at another iother and thus destroy a v ry large proportion of the crop tor a y of sour juice wid neutralize toe ng properties of its own weight ol of good juice with regard to the idea of the machinery lying idle ten months of the year r this isi 14 not a very unusual ze thing hing the til buildings dings of the bathing resorts do that toe farmers mower reaper thresher plow iia IB fact all the tools of a farmer have a ten or twelve months rest and nearly all other machinery does pretty much the same why there is very little wal chinery that runs more than oue one third of the actual time or about four months in the year and it sugar machinery runs day clay and night for eight weeks which would probably be the extreme length of our season we would get nearly half as much service out 0 ot it as other machinery gives so sabat that it is is only like lying idle a litle litile more than half of toe time for instance take a mill if t ey run dine and a half ours a dav for day they make 2 hours if ve run eight anka we would run 1344 how houis s inus lack in ing adly only a very litile of on half A and d if the can earn as money in 1 hourt hours as othey other ma chinen can IL 2 awny i il i ft f pi t rest bi arside Rs side ide I 1 auit vr inucci if that on I 1 iiii w d flaula loaia ru more i han ha 1344 fiur ur in tack lac lve months win regard to beet sugar in in utah the experiment ot of in adli fornia in te t c course of time may result in cheaper bugar augar than will make liere here when this its is pi ved we shall then consider thy the beet if the alkali in our soil does not increase the natural refractoriness of the juice nice to too great an exten and render it too uncertain and add cot costly ly our machinery machio ery will be just I 1 he kind appa d and in in ane meantime we shall also alao experiment and be prepared after emen seasons seamona run on cane to put through a tew bundra bund rJ d tons of beets bother gaes area says so some in v one na f 1 mons dateo 43 per cent sweet in some rite n e s t a must be a misprint of ahu albu 30 per cent ct nt out if he falln means that dign r tie should nv hv all roeana secure owe oaf of nose for eed aeed and he could then raise beets which with process of cut tin rint anti inti sti imigine on a ahrea and hanging up tip to dr would bt be able to sweeten his bis coff e ny hi in a small piece and his cook would need only a g grat gritter erand dind a ft bev v chips chip of beet to sw eten eien her pi a the greatest practical per cent I 1 ver ever beard af of in favor dav r of the beet is sixteen some persons have claimed eight e ej ewt it has hag never been pacifically demonstrated st and th Enro european peau factories mike all t air contact tr t r het bet he be t ep CP tainie between eleven and thi teen eti rot not less than eleven nor expecting expect ing more enore than eti ARTHUR STAYNER |