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of making sugar. Hence there was no trouble with it whatever. 

 They have improved their process of manufacture within the 

 past few years. They keep a number of hogs, and they have a 

 train of cars which carries the bagasse and the seed to a conven- 

 ient point in the vicinity of the pens, and the seed is distrib- 

 uted to the hogs, and thej use the baf/asse to make manure, and in 

 the spring they usually have enough manure for one acre of land 

 for each hog kept. 



Gen. Le Due. Did they tell you the cost of the sugar per 

 pound? 



Capt. Blakeley. Well, they estimated that it would not cost 

 them over two cents per pound. The year I was there they told me 

 they had sold seed enough to pay for the crop. They estimated 

 the cost of putting the crop through the mill at a dollar a ton. 

 Now those of us who know anything about this industry know 

 that amber cane can be grown so as to make it a paying business 

 beyond the possibility of a doubt. Mr. Collyer has said that 

 sugar can be made for one and one-half cents per pound. Of 

 course, in order to do this you want to avail yourself of all the 

 products that come from the crop. Mr. Kenney is paying two dol- 

 lars and fifty cents per ton for cane, and every man that is grow- 

 ing cane for him is making more money from that than from 

 anything else he could grow. 



I had hoped to vSee our friend from Wisconsin, Mr. Powell, 

 here at this meeting. He has always been here, and he comes 

 through cold and heat, and is one of the most enthusiastic men 

 we have anywhere in the business, and is making money out of 

 it. Last year he lost his cane, but it didn't dampen his courage 

 one bit. He said, '' If I had lost my corn, that would not be a 

 reason why I should not plant more corn." This year he has 

 done well with his crop of cane. I have sent to Mr. Powell for 

 a barrel of vinegar, as I have become tired of using muriatic 

 acid for vinegar. Such vinegar as he makes ought to be more 

 generally used; it would be healthier than the vinegar made and 

 sold in the market. 



The policy that this State should pursue, and especially at the 

 schools, and which should be pursued by my friend Prof. Porter, 

 is that all the boys that he graduates in the school should be put 

 through a thorough course of training, and let them become ed- 

 ucated on these matters, and by so doing they will find their 

 knowledge a source of benefit to them in the future. When they 

 go home they can impart information among their neighbors, 



