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it witli the acid. That is the reason they buy New Orleans mo- 

 lasses in preference to any other, if they can get it. It is very 

 difficult to get. There is somebody in the way of that barrel 

 getting to market; they have a special use for it. Now people 

 had not asked yet how to make glucose syrup, but they do find 

 that the amber cane syrups are in their way in the market. It 

 was said, very properly, that anyone would take the amber cane 

 first; consequently they have a man down there who knows what 

 the price of it is; he will bring that and the glucose together 

 somewhere; and they have stopped talking about the pure, clear 

 white syrup to the people, and they have stopped selling it now; 

 it is not fashionable now; it is not exactly the thing that recom- 

 mends the syrup in the market, and that is what comes of a large 

 proportion of the amber cane syrup, and almost all of the New 

 Orleans syrup in the market. 



There is imported into the United States 30,000,000 gallons 

 of syrup annually. There is produced in the United States 

 another 30,000,000 gallons of syrup; hence there are 60,000,000 

 gallons of syrup which, in one way or another, is grown, and 

 which comes from sugar cane which is sold and used in the 

 United States. 



The syrup which is handled in the Baltimore refineries is re- 

 boiled. For instance, syrup is imported into the United States 

 and is rated at fifty-six per cent of saccharine matter; that is, 

 the kind of syrup they usually buy. It pays a duty of four cents 

 per gallon. Our Baltimore friends take it and they boil it. 

 There is no end to the demand for syrups in this country. We 

 need not have any fear that in your day or in mine there will be 

 enough to supply the demand of the people. 



Now I want to say a word about the manufacture of amber 

 cane syrup. My friend here, Mr. Smith, has very aptly said that 

 Mr. Kenney was once a poor man, A great result to him was 

 the discovery of the sugar in 1877. He became enthusiastic; he 

 spent the last dollar he had or could raise to buy machinery. 

 He went to work upon his process, and he said to his neighbors 

 that they could grow cane for him and he would pay them so 

 much per ton, and he has got his neighbors growing cane by the 

 ton for him to grind. Now, his machinery has *iot been suffi- 

 cient to work up all the cane that he has had; he had to have the 

 cane piled up in the yard. I have seen the yard full of cane, 

 and piled up as high as my head and higher, and some of 

 it would have to stand there perhaps for weeks. He used to 



