Show SUGAR manufacture BB I 1 v f I 1 alt t will be go r remembered that a few days ag ago 0 we p published published an open letter to the farmers of utah by arthur stayner F eq laiq of farmington in which that gentleman set forth the advantages of the manufacture of sugar in utah when it is considered that the amount of sugar sugar 1 purchased in this territory coh nearly Sl per annum one house alono alone in 1883 having paid out for that article and further that a goodly portion of the money furnished to send out of the country for this indispensable article was obtained by the sale of wheat at from 60 50 acts to 70 per bushel the necessity of setting on foot some movement by which the facilities of the territory can bo be utilized to stop the outgo of this vast amount of money and retain it here for circulation must in the words ot of mr lar stayner be apparent to all As earl early y as 1880 the legislative assembly offered ered 2000 iu increased creased to by the succeeding legislature for the manufacture of 7 ibs lbs of sugar out of material produced in this territory how ever difficult of solution this problem appeared under exist existing ilig circum was both enthusiastic enough on the general principle of home industry and confident enough of the practicability of the enterprise that he lie at once set out to work the scheme out to demonstrate for fo r the satisfaction and bene dij fit of his fellow citizens the tho possibility of profitable production of the saccharine commodity which may as properly be considered a nece necessity mity of life nowa nowadays doys in our midst As he lie shows in his report to the twenty sixth legislative assem bly of tho the territory lately adjourned jour ned he raised in the four years of his experiments acres of cane t and purchased machinery the price fully exhausted the amount appropriated by the legislative assemblies sem blies of 1880 and 1882 tho the machinery which is is extensive and expensive for the extraction of the pure substance out ortho of the crude material comprised one 10 hoise borse engine one 15 horse borse boiler one roller in mill ten crystallizing vats gallons capacity ea chand many other pieces a complete enumeration of which ig is found in the printed report which we herewith recommend to tho careful perusal olour of our friends of I 1 V the farming profesa profession ion after successively ces increasing his experiments in the fourth year he be raised for ty three acres of cane of two different kinds the early amber being more suitable in thia this climate than the golden red upon three diff different lerent 0 kinds of soil gracely gray ely black loam and clay on this he be made between and iba lbs of sugar the largest yield of cane our farmington experimenter received from froin any one piece of land was from a five acre plot of sandy loam which gave seventy tons of stripped and topped cane carefully weighed or fourteen tons to the acre the actual product of which was pounds of sugar worth and gallons of molasses 44 worth orth making a total yield of or average per acre planted leaving leavin 11 tho the technical details of the raising of tho the cane and the operations of tho the machinery in tho manufacture to the readers of tho the pamp pamphlet blet copies of which we wc bava no doubt air stayner will be pleased to bend send to any address on application wo we come to the cost of raising a crop of corn which he thinks will not exceed per ton while the cost of working 0 on a largo large scale evidently by far tho the most remunerative will ivill yield a handsome profit at per ton the result of one ton of cane at cur rent prices of sugar and syrup being about 1000 besides tho the sugar and syrup however there aro tire other incidental sources of income thus the seed of the cane which if properly treated is said to be of equal value with barley for feed also the where the cane is not tripped stripped which can be utilized either as good rough feed at the rate of iba to the ton toil of cane or as fuel where the price of coal 13 is high mr stayner gives a good deal of additional information concerning thia this subject the importance of which cannot be over overestimated estimated in a letter aletter to the editor edito of the II 11 approving of our undeviating cour course sein in advocating home manufacture fac turc mr stayner truly gays 1 I think it is high time we ceased stultifying ourselves before the eyes of the world and cease playing into the hands of the sharks and harpies i who while they laugh at our folly pocket our shekels certainly tho the policy pursued at present by our people is suicidal or will prove euch such if not checked soon the powerful admonitions to the saints at the last Confer conference euce we hope have found open ears and willing hearts no people that is cotsell not sell sustaining can last long least of all the latter day saints whose mission it ia is to become independent of material outside control no leas less than of the shackles of sectarian belief |