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(liflereiit sizes to suit the capacity required. The hirger the inaim- 

 factory the cheaper is the work accomplislied. It is chiimed that 

 great advantage is afforded in the manufacture of sugars, from tlie 

 circumstance that the period of cutting and working up the crop into 

 dense syrup oicurs at a tima when the season for outdoor work is most 

 favorable and when the days are long. The work of sugar making 

 can be arrested at a point — in the syrup state — and may be comi)leted 

 during the winter wdien labor is cheap. It is also claimed that the 

 sugar is manufactured simply and cheaply, and at less than half the 

 cost of beet root sugar; tlie carbonacious process and the use of animal 

 charcoal being entirely dispensed with, and the use of the vacuum pan 

 is quite unnecessary. 



Mr. S. H. Kenny, of the Pioneer Press, Minniapolis, Minnesota, 

 says: "We commenced work 12th September, (the season was late) 

 and finished 28th October, 1878, manufacturing four thousand two 

 hundred and forty-two gallons of good dense syrup, working eighteen 

 hours per day. The help employed besides myself was three men and 

 two boys, and horses to run the mill, a change of which should be 

 made every six hours. Had I used a Victor Mill No. 5 I could have 

 accomplished the same work with one less hand. I used a No. 7 

 Cook Evaporator. The wood required for evaporating was fifty-six: 

 cords, all soft wood." He estimates that the expense of manufacture 

 is twenty-six cents per gallon if the cane is bought ; the price per acre 

 delivered at the mill is twenty-five dollars, but it can be grown at 

 seventeen dollars per acre, which would reduce the cost of manufacture 

 five cents per gallon, making the syrup twenty-one cents per gallon. 

 This syrup he has sold at seventy cents per gallon by the barrel. It 

 will be seen, if these figures are correct, that there is a good margin 

 for profit. 



If necessary, facts of an official nature could be multiplied to show 

 the success this industr}' has met with in its crude state, not only in 

 manufacturing syrup but sugar also. The Early Amber cane has been 

 successfully grown here in small quantities by more than one individual 

 as an experiment, though no use has been made of it further than 

 feeding to horses and cattle. These animals are exceedingly fond of it, 

 and eat it up with great avidity. As a summer forage plant it has no 

 equal, as the crop raised per acre is very heavy. Some seed was sown 

 here 12th June, 1879, and the plants w^ere cut 22nd September for the 



