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influence and their votes to secure the passage by the present 

 Congress of the bill known as the "Hatch Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station Bill "' for the purpose of securing the establishment 

 of at least one agricultural experiment station in every state of 

 the Union, such measure being in the line of progress in agricul- 

 tural science. 



The resolution was adopted. 



Mr. Kenney. I did not find any chinch bugs in my cane at all. 

 The season was very dry and I began to cultivate early and kept 

 the plows at work. I think I got as good a crop as I ever raised. 

 I notice where they did not have so much cultivation the cane was 

 smaller and inferior, and the juice was not as good as in other 

 years. I never had better granulation; everything was full of 

 grain. In one barrel of syrup sold to a merchant there was one 

 hundred and thirty-two pounds of mush, sugar when the syrup 

 was drawn out. I am surprised at the results that can be had 

 with open evaporation on Mr. Porter's pan, and it has filled me 

 with enthusiasm. If such results can be had at eight degrees what 

 may we not expect when we have cane yielding juice of a strength 

 of ten or eleven degrees ? Last season, on account of its dryness 

 was the best for granulation purposes in a number of years. Still 

 I look for better seasons in the future and with good cane seasons 

 and our improved machinery we are going to have ah oppor- 

 tunity to show the world what we do. The possibilities of this in- 

 dustry are scarcely realized at the present time, and I believe it 

 is coming to the front, and is going to be an important factor of 

 wealth for the farmers of Minnesota. I look for important re- 

 sults to come from our knowledge of clarifying the juice which 

 we now have and am more enthusiastic than ever as to this in- 

 dustry. Where we can do the work so safely and boil a gallon 

 per minute you can see there is no chance for inversion; where 

 there are good facilities afforded for cooling we can have solid 

 sugar in a short time where kept at about ninety degrees for two 

 or three daj^s. 



Capt. Blakeley. You do not attribute the failure of the cane 

 product to the weather? 



Mr. Kenney. A high wind struck the cane before it was ripe 

 iand blew down a good deal of it and those pieces that were most 

 injured by windhad the lowest saccharine strength; some of it did 

 not amount to half what I expected. 



Prof. Porter. As emphasizing the importance of the work of 

 the experiment stations it may be cited that seventy years ago 

 the amount of sugar obtained from the juice of the beet was 

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