THE CANAUIAX IIOllTICULTUlllST. 45 



SUGAH ]\IAK1NG IN ONTAEIO. 



In the Canadian Farmer of December 29t]i, 1880, is a vcn 

 interesting account of the luanufacture of syrup and sugar from the 

 Amber cane, at Tilsonburg, County of Oxford, by the Ontario Cane 

 •Sugar Company, S. Joy, M. I)., President. 



It appears that this company lias erected at Tilsonburg a suitable 

 building, iittetl up with the necessary apparatus for the manufacture 

 of sixty tons of the cane every twenty-four hours, l)y employing two 

 gangs of workmen. Last winter the company purchased a quantity of 

 pure Amber cane seed, part of which was planted on thirty-seven 

 acres of land, and the remainder sold to those who desired to give it a 

 trial. The cane raised from this seed yielded about fourteen tons t© 

 the acre, and after being crushed and the j^iioe made i«to syrup and 

 purified, produced twelve gallons of symp to the ton of cane, which 

 sells at wh(jlesale at 55c. per gallon, thus making the product of an 

 acre in cane syrup worth $92.40. ]>esides the syrup, the cane yielded 

 thirty bushels of seed to tlie -fiere, which is worth as much as the same 

 number of bushels of shelled corn for feed, while the leaves and 

 threshed tops of the cane make excellent fodder. Tarmers were paid 

 three dollars per ton for the cane deli-vered at the tiictory which made 

 the yield in cane and seed alone to the farmer >equal to J$57 per acre, 

 •estimating the seed at 50c. per bushel, without putting any estimate 

 on the value of the fodder. 



The company liave ascertained by experiment that if the cane is 

 carefully housed it can be kept for months without losing any of its 

 saccharine matter, the frost -not hurting it in the least. This has 

 induced the company to contemplate the establishment of l)raneh 

 factories for crushing the cane along the line of the railways winning 

 through Tilsonburg, and shipping the juice to headquai"ters to be 

 manufactured into s}Tup and sugar. 



It is gratifying to learn that these sugar raanufactories are being 

 set in operation in difierent parts of Ontario. There is no reason why 

 we should -not be able to make our own syrup and sugar, and thus 

 aftbrd to our farmers, operatives and capitalists another and most 

 remunerative field of labor. This com})any show that the results of 

 this season's operations will yield a dividend of thirty per cent, on the 

 <capital employe<l> and therefore propose to enlarge their capital 4* 



