Identifier: industrialhistor00boll (find matches)
Title: Industrial history of the United States, from the earliest settlements to the present time: being a complete survey of American industries, embracing agriculture and horticulture; including the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, wheat; the raising of horses, neat-cattle, etc.; all the important manufactures, shipping and fisheries, railroads, mines and mining, and oil; also a history of the coal-miners and the Molly Maguires; banks, insurance, and commerce; trade-unions, strikes, and eight-hour movement; together with a description of Canadian industries
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Bolles, Albert Sidney, 1846-1939
Subjects: Industries Industries
Publisher: Norwich, Conn. : The Henry Bill pub. Company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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years. In 1870they consolidated with a like establishment at Freeport, 111., and producedthat year 200,000 pounds of good sugar at moderate cost. Messrs. Bonesteel& Otto embarked in the business at Fond du Lac, Wis., in 1867; andanother co-operative enterprise was started at Black Hawk, Wis., in 1870.Several ventures were made, too, in California, Mr. Wentworth of Alvaradosecuring the assistance of Bonesteel and Otto in 1870; and the next yearthey produced 1,000,000 pounds of sugar. Amherst Agricultural College,the Virginia University, and other institutions and individuals, have experi-mented. Sorghum, or the Chinese-cane, was introduced into this country by theBureau of Agriculture in 1856. It can be cultivated in almost any part of thecountry : and, under the extensive notices given it by the commis- Sorghum. . f . 6 * . sioner s reports, it soon met with a wide acceptance. It yields agood sirup, and but little sugar. The census of i860 showed the product ofthat year to be, —
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88 INDUSTRIAL HISTORY GALLONS. Iowa ............ 1,211,512 Indiana 881,049 Illinois 806,589 Missouri . 796,111 Ohio 779,076 Tennessee . . ; . 706,663 Other States 568,123 Total 6,749,123 Iowa was then the largest producer; but Ohio developed the industrymore rapidly until 1866, since which year it has gradually declined there andProduction m Indiana and Illinois. It extended up into Wisconsin too,from sor- somewhat, but rather more largely in Kansas, and all through theghum. South, prominently in Georgia. It is estimated that we raise annually 12,000,000 gallons of sirup, which, at sixty-five cents a gallon, wouldcome to $7,800,000; and 250,000 pounds of sugar, which, at six cents apound, would make the annual yield worth over $7,815,000. When thevalue of the crop comes to be better understood, it is believed its culture willbe vastly increased. The maple-sugar industry dates from the earliest colonial days, but hasnot been carried on extensively in any part of the country. It is most

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