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and exempt from taxation for five years all the machinery employed in sugar 

 making, but to encourage the farmers in growing cane they pay them a 

 premium for every ton of cane they produce. 



Hoping that you may be permitted to continue your experiments in this 

 sugar industry with a sufficient amount of money at your disjiosal to enable 

 you to extend your field of usefulness in this and any other direction that will 

 be of benefit to our farming community, I remain 



Respectfully yours, 



A. J. RUSSELL. 



[From J. D. Sherwood, Green Lake county .J 

 Daktford, Gueen Lake County, Wis., December 18, 1881. 

 Prof. Henry, Madison, Wis.: 



Dear Sir — In reply to your favor of 8th ult., would say that I rolled 347J^ 

 tons, averaging 7° B., allowing on the basis of 50 per cent, of juice,'expressed 

 101-2 gallons to the ton, which basis has given about 100 gallons to the acre 

 on clay and sandy loam soil. The highest yield was G^Wo tons, testing 8° B., 

 from one-third of an acre, raised by Wm. McDonnell, of this town, being at 

 the rate of 338 gallons per acre, and the lowest yield high about 30 gallons to 

 the acre, juice 3^ B. Commenced September 9 on the above yield, the seed of 

 which was ripe. But most of the after working was dough to ripe. Most of 

 the cane was planted after other work, and thA it has paid better than any- 

 thing else; but not as well as last year, owing to the peculiar season. The 

 cost of working our crop of eight acres was ten days' work fitting ground; 

 eight days' work planting and cultivating; five days' work thinning out; 

 forty-five days work stripping and cutting, and then only one-half of it 

 stripped, as it was badly lodged; twenty-four days' work and team drawing 

 one and a half miles ; making ninety two days' work for 70^;^ tons, testing 7^ 

 B., which was worked at twenty cents per gallon, and also at the halves, cost- 

 ing to manufacturers, including the twenty per cent, wear on outfit costing 

 about $4,000, fourteen cents per gallon, which is more than it will next, owing 

 to being inexperienced in everything. But still the consumers are well 

 pleased, saying that they cannot replace it from the grocery. Families are 

 using five gallons where they only used one before, with a very great differ- 

 ence in their sugar bill to their credit ; and why not ? It is cane sugar instead of 

 the insipid glucose backed with a little sorghum that is dealt out by most of 

 the stores as " sugar house." There is no doubt at all in the fact that very 

 soon we shall manufacture most of sugar and syrup and my very greatest 

 fear is that it will be overdone, as those who raise it increase their acreage. 

 I find that the best sales are made where it is known. It brings from 45 to 

 60 cents per gallon. 



My outfit is a %% Niles and complete steam train, with 12 horse-power 

 engine and 45 horse-power boiler, from Blymer & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. 

 Burn bagasse and coal, which makes the cost about five cents per gallon. 



