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iniineratiTe than anything I ever knew of. It will make any man of good 

 judgment rich in a few years. He can make enough in the first season to 

 pay all expenses, and the cost of the machinery. The amber cane is the 

 best. It will make in this climate two hundred and fifty to three hundred 

 gallons per acre. I have made four hundred gallons on one acre. Many 

 other varieties are raised here, but amber is the best. The early orange 

 comes off too late to suit us, but would make a fine successive crop with 

 you in Tennessee, 



Hon. Seth H. Kinney, of Morristown, Rice county, 

 Minnesota, writes : 



Abont ten tons of cane is an average crop with us. The average yield 

 is one hundred and sixty gallons per acre of good syrup, and this makes, 

 on an average, six pounds of sugar per gallon, leaving the balance in 

 syrup. It costs six and a half cents per gallon when made thick enough 

 for sugar. We plant and cultivate in drills, as Indian corn is raised, 

 rows three and a half feet apart. But I think it would be better to check 

 it off on hills four feet apart each way. I strip the leaves off with a 

 forked stick, cutting off the seed first. We prefer the amber variety. 

 There are seventeen factories in my vicinity, each as large as mine, be- 

 sides some smaller ones, all sprung up within the last two or three years. 

 I have been grinding and making syrup twenty years, but have been 

 making sugar about six years. I find it very profitable. I pay $2.80 per 

 ton for cane. One ton makes one hundred pounds sugar and sixteen gal- 

 lons syrup. I work at it five or six weeks. I have expended about $3,000 

 in perfecting my machinery. We have a good thing of it out here in 

 Minnesota, and there is no good reason why you should not enjoy it also. 

 It is within the reach of any man of ordinary intelligence. He can soon 

 learn with a little showing. It is the very best agricultural pursuit we 

 know or ever heard of. It beats wheat a long way with us, and will beat 

 ■cotton with you. It is a cash business, also. It will bring in cash at all 

 times, and never lacks a purchaser. It will pay you to send for a press 

 and go into the business. I have made sugar now about six j ears, and 

 ■each year find out something new that lessens the work and makes better 

 sugar. The early amber is the best by all odds. I have supplied the 

 Commissioner of Agriculture with amber seed every year for seventeen 

 years. Last year I sold him 50,000 lbs. of seed, besides shipping 2,400 

 lbs. to Japan and 1 ,500 lbs. to France. It retails at fifty cents per pound, 

 though I only got ten cents per pound. That I shipped I got eighteen 

 cents for. The stalk of the amber is eleven to twelve feet high, and three- 

 quarters to one inch in diameter. 



This closes what is to be said on the subject. It is seen 

 that there is a difference of opinion about the results or 



