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of them never recovered, but the rest survived. I j&ud that oue 

 needs to be very careful about feeding sorghum that is fermented 

 too much, but when fed jDroperly I find that the hogs fatten 

 well. 



Mr. Kenney, of our county, made 12,000 gallons or more this 

 year. I met him the fore part of last month and he told me that 

 he was going to Louisiana. There is a specimen of his syrup 

 here. I have not brought a specimen of my syrup; I tried to 

 draw some but couldn't make it run, and I was in such a hurry 

 I didn't bring it. 



Mr. C. L. Smith. I came up from Faribault with Mr. Kenney 

 a short time since and he told me that his product this year was 

 12,000 gallons. He stated that he had sold 7,000 gallons at an 

 average price of fifty-five cents per gallon, net. He made 

 another statement that I did not exactly understand at the time^ 

 but Prof. Porter's remarks about sugar-making in Louisiana ex- 

 plain his statements about New Orleans syrui^s selling for seven, 

 eleven and twenty-five cents per gallon. Mr. Kenney finds a 

 ready sale for his syrup and he asks for it about what the mer- 

 chants can readily get for it. He said that he found that the 

 merchants generally didn't like to put his syruiD on sale, and of 

 this 7,000 gallons over 6,000 gallons was sold at retail. He stated 

 that where persons had used it they were generally ready to buy 

 more. The retailers do not like to pay fifty-five cents for what 

 they would sell for sixty-five cents; they could make a better 

 profit on the seven, eleven and twenty-five; but he says that year 

 by year the retail demand for his syrup has steadily increased;; 

 he has sold more five and ten gallon lots than he ever sold before. 

 They would come with a jug to have it filled and say to him, 

 ''We bought a little of you last year and we liked it first-rate j 

 this year we tried some made somewhere else and they gave us 

 some that was sour; if you have some like that last you may 

 send us ten gallons." About the first of January he had sold 

 about 6,000 gallons and he thought it altogether , likely by the 

 first of May he would be able to dispose of the balance of his 

 crop. Now, his profits on his crop, not counting the interest on 

 his plant, the machinery on his farm, etc., but the profit over 

 and above the cash expenditures for labor to produce this 12,000 

 gallons, will be close to $3,500; he finds it very profitable. I 

 knew Mr. Kenney years ago when he was a poor man and before 

 he got to making amber cane syrup. Now he is head and shoul- 

 ders above his neighbors, and has made his money out of amber 



