Vol. XXXIX. No. 21 .) 
Whole No. 1582. j 
NEW YORK, MAY % 1880 . 
K Price Five Cents, 
j 82.00 Per Year. 
[Entered according’ to Act of Congress, In the year 1880, by the Rural New-Yorker, In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.] 
Jfatm founts. 
THE SORGHUM SUGAR INDUSTRY. 
I. A. HEDGES. 
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a Suburban or Country Dwelling.—Approximate cost 
Evidences are fast accumulating of the 
success that awaits upon the manufacture of 
sugar from Sorghum in the Northern States. 
At present the increase in the growth of Sor¬ 
ghum is getting ahead of the skill, throughout 
the country, needed to utilize the crop in this 
way. I have foreseen this for some time, and 
have urgently appealed to our Agricultural 
Colleges to include sugar making from this 
product among their regular studies. Oar 
Board of Agriculture, here in Missouri, has 
awakened to the importance of the matter, and 
others are in correspondence with our Cane 
Growers’ Association on the subject. I have 
constantly, of late, warned people against over¬ 
production. What we need now is profitable 
results from field crops. To grow one is not 
difficult, and in utilizing it in sugar making 
the days of laboratory experiments have gone 
by. We must now come to practical work 
upon a paying basis. This, I am pleased to 
Bay, is to be done this year by quite a large 
number of establishments of lair proportions. 
Of these, one in Minnesota is owned by the 
Hon. Seth H. Kenney ; in the same Stale there 
is another at New Ulm, and a third at Faira- 
bault. One near St. Louis is run by Mr. C. M. 
Schwarz, an occasional correspondent of the 
Rural and Corresponding Sec'y of our Cane- 
Growers’ Association, and our expert, Mr. C. 
W. Belcher, late superintendent of the Belcher 
Refining Company, of this city. Crystal Lake, 
111,, boasts of one, under the management of 
your correspondent, Mr. Russell, while there 
are two or three in Kansas, some in Texas, one 
at San Buenaventura, CaL.andone at Corning, 
New York, under charge ofMr. C. J. Reynolds, 
Secretary of the Farmers’ Club of that place, 
who will plant about 100 acres this year. 
Most of the above establishments belong to 
organized companies, although a few are 
owned by enterprising private persons. The 
plan of organized com¬ 
panies is commendable, 
for the reason that it ag¬ 
gregates a community 
of interests and means 
for the enterprise, thus 
making the bnithen 
much lighter individual¬ 
ly. I say burthen, because 
at the present stage of 
the industry, no great 
financial success can be 
anticipated; but what 
farmer ever opened a 
new farm, either in the 
timber or even prairie 
region, and made any 
considerable cash de¬ 
posits in bank the first 
year, especially if he 
had only just entered 
upon an apprentice¬ 
ship in the business. 
Very few manufactur¬ 
ing concerns, with a 
full complement of ex- 
perienced workmen, 
find any considerable 
balauce on the credit 
side of their ledger at the 
close of the first year 
In thi6 industry where 
there is one thoroughly 
well qualified man to 
lead in the general super¬ 
vision, and take direct 
charge of the boiling, 
there need be no fear of 
a failure to attain a 
fair measure of success. 
$1,BOO.—Fig. 170. 
A $1,500 DWELLING-HOUSE. 
We here present our readers with plans of 
a convenient, economical and handsome dwel¬ 
ling-house or cottage, which was recently 
built by one of the Kuril's friends. Economy 
and ntility are the objects aimed at in these 
designs, the whole house having been built for 
$1,500. To this end, the structure is made 
nearly square and thus the greatest amount 
of room Is afforded with the least expenditure 
of materials, the same principle being carried 
out also in the arrangement of the rooms. The 
outside appearance is pleasing and even orna¬ 
mental ; the piazza and deep windows iu the 
first story, the form of the roof and the orna¬ 
mental chimney give a stylish air to the whole 
structure, which is lacking in many buildings 
of double the cost. 
In the first story is a spacious parlor, besides 
sitting-room, kitchen, pautry and hall. No 
room is set apart especially for a dining-room, 
but either the sitting-room or the kitchen may 
be used for this purpose, as the occupants may 
desire. The location of flues, grates aud stoves 
is plainly indicated in the plan. 
In the second story are one large bed-room, 
a living-room of the same dimensions and two 
hall bed-rooms, all provided with the necessary 
closets. The cellar is not shown in the plan, 
but this each bnilder can muke of a size that 
will suit bis purposes, either under the whole, 
or under only a part of the house. It is a 
house suited for the country or a small village 
lot, and is admirably adapted to the wants of 
a small family. If a spacious and frost-proof 
cellar be built under the house in which to 
keep dairy products, fruits and other things, 
it will make au excellent farm-house. In that 
case, care should be taken to erect it on a spot 
with good, natural drainage, in order to make 
the cellar as dry as possible, and if the ground 
is at all disposed to hold moisture, three or 
four drains should be laid about two feet below 
the cellar floor. Put in windows enough to 
properly light the rcom, and coat both walls aud 
floor with cement. A 
light, dry, frost-proof 
cellar is indispensable 
to a comfortable farm¬ 
house. We tru6t the 
plans may prove of ser¬ 
vice to such of our 
readers as are think¬ 
ing of erecting a new 
dwelling. 
We will also take this 
occasion to urge upon 
our friends the oft re¬ 
peated injunction to 
plant suitable vines aud 
shrubbery about the 
house. A dwelling- 
house, no matter how 
comfortable or how 
artistic and ornamental 
may be the design, 
looks, at best, bare aud 
uninviting when un¬ 
supported by green fo¬ 
liage. Thus a mixture 
of Clematis, the Dutch¬ 
man’s Pipe, (Aristolo- 
chia Siplio,) Wistaria, 
and even the common 
Virginia Creeper, plant¬ 
ed near the piazza iu 
good soil, encircling 
the trellis-work aud 
climbing over the roof, 
adds a charm and come¬ 
liness to the simplest 
cottage, which no skill 
of the best architects 
can ever supply. Front Elevation of 
