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gallons of syrup and the other eighty gallons. Of course, it 

 was a heavy tug, but it may save the small farmer forty or 

 eighty trips to the store with the molasses jug. Think of 

 forty or eighty trips with the molasses jug, with your wife 

 standing waiting Saturday morning, and the children wanting 

 their gingerbread! 



Mr. Myrick. I would like to ask Secretary Gold's atten- 

 tion upon one point, and that is, in view of the so-called 

 success in New Jersey and in Champaign County, 111., where 

 sugar and syrup have been manufactured by concerns that 

 cost considerable money, would it not seem the way to make 

 the thing pay is to manufacture on the co-operative principle ; 

 to have a company get the proper machinery, as they did out 

 there, at a cost of a good many thousand dollars, where they 

 can make it in good shape ? Is not that the only way to 

 make it profitable, except where the small farmer can boil it 

 down and make syrup ? Does Mr. Gold think it best for the 

 small farmer to attempt to make sugar ? Can he make sugar 

 on his farm, or would he advise the co-operative principle ? 



Mr. Gold. Probably the manufacture of sugar will be 

 best conducted in large establishments, and my judgment 

 would be, that it is not best for the small farmer to try to 

 make sugar on his own farm. Out in Minnesota, where the 

 cane has been raised for several years, I understand a good 

 many farmers do make sugar on their own farms. They do 

 not do it with certainty, but they do it from time to time. 

 Their casks of syrup all turn to sugar in their cellars. They 

 don't know when it is going to be done, or how it is done 

 exactly, but it is done repeatedly, and with a little more 

 knowledge, they think it can be done every time. 



Adjourned to Evening. 



