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costs twenty-five cents, my idea is that the state could pay this 

 five cents to those who would engage in the manufacture and 

 save the twenty cents that is now sent out of the state to the 

 glucose companies. In a year the state would save that money. 

 It is sent out for syrups that are injurious to health and it would 

 be a little bit of inducement to farmers to take hold of this new 

 industry. 



iSTow, we have the Early Amber sugar cane that seems to be 

 adapted to this climate. We plant about the time we plant corn. 

 We plant the same distance as corn and plow both ways, and 

 attend it very much the same, and if the ground is well worked, 

 it is a very easy matter to take care of it. If the ground is full 

 of pigeon grass the cane looks so much like the pigeon grass ifc 

 is necessary to take a garden rake and rake over the hill. I 

 think the best way is to cultivate well and keep the pigeon grass 

 out of the land. On most any soil in Minnesota the Amber cane 

 flourishes beautifully. 



I can say one thing, that I shouldn't have stuck to it for thirty 

 years if I hadn't made it pay. I have built up a business that 

 has cost money, but it would cost one-half less with men that un- 

 derstand making the machinery. It can be had of Messrs. Dens- 

 more Bros., of Eed Wing. I say this although I have no interest 

 in the machinery except for the farmers. I repeat that here is 

 an unoccupied field in this great State of Minnesota for formers 

 that would return them thousands and thousands of dollars, that 

 might be kept here at home instead of being sent away to pur- 

 chase goods that are inferior and unpalatable. 



President Blakeley then addressed the Aseociation and said: 



ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT BLAKELEY. 



The Amber Cane industry is virtually on trial whether to exist 

 or die in the future, as an industry among us. I have now, as I 

 have always, had undoubted confidence in its success of this 

 eventually, but it requires that men should have that undoubted 

 confidence in it that they will be willing to put their hands to it 

 and make it go. The industry may be said to have gone through 

 a great many different kinds of experience since it was first com- 

 menced; and the most critical, too, in almost every locality,. 



