256 HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE. 
Mr. Witey. Did you want something in regard to the work we 
have done in regard to table sirup? 
The CHarrMan. Yes, we will be glad to have you tell us about that. 
Mr. Wnmizy. In regard to this work 1 am sorry to say I can not 
report such successful results. 
The Cuarrman. You have been at it practically only a few months. 
Mr. Witxy. This past year; but 1 will tell you one thing that hurts 
us most of all in regard to that, and that is the fact that when we 
made these estimates last year we based then on the price of materials 
at that time, and when we came to buy we found that the prices of 
materials were from 25 to 35 per cent higher than we had estimated 
them. 
The Cuarrman. What do you mean by materials? 
Mr. Witey. The materials to put up our experiment factory at 
Waycross. We built a factory there to show the economies we pro- 
posed to introduce in sirup making. 
The Cuarrman. You mean the materials of construction? 
Mr. Wizry. Yes; materials of construction. These are the things 
we have accomplished. We have accomplished a great deal, but it 
has not been as successful as I had hoped it would be, because for two 
months we have not had a dollar for our own use, and the experiments 
we were doing had to be stopped. We built first a model factory, the 
lans of which were drawn by the best mechanical skill by Doctor 
Sper cen, the most competent sugar expert of this country. We 
erected a six-roller mill instead of a three-roller mill, which had been 
used before. We have increased by actual measurement the extrac- 
tion from 60 per cent under the old style to about 76 per cent. 
The Cuarrman. Is that by increased pressure? 
Mr. Witey. By double milling. Any of you who have stood by a 
sorghum mill know how the bagasse comes out. It comes out like the 
stalk itself. This bagasse was taken at random [indicating samples to 
the committee]. This is the condition to which the stalk is crushed 
by our method. It is an absolute success, and it has worked without 
a hitch. Instead of getting that mill for $2,500, as we thought we 
would be able to do, we had to pay $3,500 for it before it was finished. 
The Cuarrman. That mill would not be within the reach of the 
ordinary cane grower, then, would it? 
Mr. Wirey. Yes. 
The Caarrman. How much cane would you have to grow to make 
that profitable? 
Mr. Wirey. That mill will grind three tons of cane an hour—72 
tons for twenty-four hours. 
The Cuarrman. How many acres would a man have to plant? 
Mr. Witey. A single individual? 
The Cuarrman. Each man does not use his own thrashing machine 
in the country ? 
Mr. Wier. And this mill will grind about 250 acres of cane ina 
season of three months. 
} ee CuarRMAN. How many sugar-cane growers are there of that 
size? 
Mr. Witey. Not one. 
The Cuarrman. Not one, and the small mill is rapidly disappearing 
from that country and mills of this kind are taking their places. 
