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185831868Springfield IL 1858. Broadside 10-1/2" x 13-1/2". Printed in four columns. Lightly foxed old folds Very Good.<br/><br/> This evidently unrecorded broadside recounts the proceedings of a Convention. held at the State Capitol in Springfield to determine the feasibility of a regional program to advance the cultivation of sorghum or Chinese sugar cane. Notice of the Convention was reported in the Sangamo Journal / Illinois State Journal for 30 December 1857: "It is confidently believed that the Chinese Sugar Cane is well 'adapted to our soil and climate' and that it can be successfully and profitably cultivated and manufactured into molasses and sugar." <br/> The Agricultural Committee submitted information from growers and processors in Kentucky Pennsylvania Ohio and Indiana. The Mechanical Committee could not produce an acceptable proposal for a processing machine and the Convention adjourned with a recommendation that Illinois delegates gather more information for a future convention. Efforts to stimulate the growth of northern sugar cane continued through the succeeding decades.<br/>As of October 2019 not located on OCLC or the online sites of AAS NYPL Newberry Harvard Yale U MI. Not in Sabin Eberstadt Decker Graff. unknown books
18861400649th Cong. 1st Sess.: HED108. 1886. 27pp Disbound 4 folding charts. Very Good. HED108. unknown books
188930671San Francisco: Commercial Publishing Company 31 California St. 1889. 73 1 blank pp. Original printed front wrapper with wrapper title as issued disbound. A clean text signed in ink on the last text page and on the front wrapper. Very Good<br/><br/>offered with . ARGUMENT OF WM. M. PIERSON FOR PLAINTIFF. San Francisco: Commercial Publishing Co. 1889. 154pp original printed front wrapper with wrapper title as issued. Disbound. Very Good.<br/><br/> Two arguments for the State of California arguing that this large refinery company "had surrendered the management of its concern and the control of its business to a body of men known as 'The Sugar Refineries Company' an unincorporated association of non-resident individuals formed and operated for the purpose of limiting the supply and thus advancing the price of sugar and therefore an unlawful combination and monopoly acting in restraint of trade" internal quotation marks omitted. The Company over the next thirty years would be charged with a variety of antitrust violations.<br/>We do not locate records of these items in Cowan Harv. Law Cat. or on OCLC as of October 2013. Commercial Publishing Company, 31 California St. unknown books
182418594London: Hatchard and Sons 1824. Disbound 41pp. First and last leaves lightly dusted and worn else Very Good. The author argues that "notwithstanding the preferential duty rate of 10s. per hundredweight enjoyed by West Indian sugar as against East Indian the latter could be entered for internal consumption so as to afford a large profit to importers. It would be a most advantageous speculation for young men of good character and with small capital native or European to embark in the manufacture of sugar in Bengal." Ragatz. FIRST EDITION. Ragatz 249. Hatchard and Sons unknown books
1882WRCAM45075Washington 1882. 40pp. Dbd. Lightly creased. Minor chipping and toning. Ink stamp on first page. About very good. U.S. government publication on the sugar industry with much concern over Hawaiian sugar flooding the market. FORBES 3392. unknown books