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do no such thing until you, who are giving so much time and attention to 

 this business, learn how, and " icrite a book " of instructions, so that every 

 farmer may know how, without the possibility of a failure. Then "exif* 

 JTew Orleans, " enter " Amber. 



We have received samples of Amber molasses, this season, that compare 

 favorably with " New Orleans," while other lots have been very poor; and 

 the difference, so far as we can learn, was not so much in the soil, or climate, 

 •or seed, as in the "modus operandi" of manufacture. 



The sugar is there; the molasses is there. How to secure it, after it is 

 grown and ready for the mill, is the one great question for you scientific 

 men. We sincerely hope that the state will continue to foster this industry 

 until it is thoroughly understood, so that every farmer can grow his own 

 sugar and molasses at one quarter the present price of New Orleans, and, 

 ■what may be even better than that, knoio that they have an absolutely pure 

 article. 



The better grades of Amber are slowly overcoming the old prejudice 

 against sorghum, and we believe the time not far distant when a choice 

 Amber molasses will be more sought after than a somewhat doubtful mix- 

 ture of New Orleans glucose and syrup. 



Wishing you every success, we are 



Yours truly, 



H. W. SMALL & CO. 



[The following letter will show what the state of New Jersey has done: 

 JVIr. Bishop, es Chief of the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, has a rare 

 chance of getting at reliable facts in this matter] 



Office of Bureau op Statistics op Labor and Industries, 



Trenton, N. J., January 31, 1882. 



Dear 8iv:—Yom valued favor of the 27th is at hand, but as my 4th annual 

 report is now in the hands of the printer and proof coming in daily, I can 

 only give a hasty sketch of what has been done in New Jersey in the manu- 

 facture of sugar. 



At the last session oi! the legislature an act was passed entitled " an act to 

 encourage the manufacture of sugar in the state of New Jersey," approved 

 February 16, 1881 (a copy of the act will be found on page 14 of the Intro- 

 duction in the 3d annual report of the Bureau). 



Mr. John Hitgerth, a practical sugar manufacturer of Philadelphia, had 

 been experimenting for about two years with the juice of the sorghum, hav- 

 ing contracted with some farmer of South Jersey to raise the cane for h-,m. 

 He put up a horse power mill to crush the cane, and putting the juice in 

 casks, sect it to his works for treatment, and became fully satisfied from his 

 experiment that sugar in paying quantities could be made from the best 

 varieties of sorghum cane. 



