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these companies amounted to $80,000,000. At the beginning of 
the present century the domestic consumption of corn syrup and 
corn sugar amounted to 1200 million pounds annually. The 
exports for the decade 1893-1903 amounted to more than 1700 
million pounds, valued at $28,000,000. 
The report of the committee was one of the most extensive 
made during the first half century of the Academy and covered 77 
printed pages. It contained, besides a general introduction, a 
summary of the history of the starch-sugar industry, an account 
of the several varieties of glucose and starch-sugar, and of their 
chemical composition, an inquiry into the healthfulness of 
glucose as a food, analyses of commercial samples of glucose and 
starch-sugar with special reference to adulteration, and a list of 
factories. To this were added fourteen pages of extracts from 
literature relating to starch-sugar, a bibliography covering 28 
pages, and a list of patents. 
The results of the work of the committee are summarized in 
eight paragraphs referring to the following subjects: The his- 
tory of starch-sugar, the process of manufacture, the extent of 
the industry, the utilization of the products, the relation of 
starch-sugar to other sugars, the organic constitutents, the health- 
fulness of glucose as a food. 
The conclusions were as follows: 
“Tn conclusion, then, the following facts appear as the result of the present 
investigation: 1st. That the manufacture of sugar from starch is a long-estab- 
lished industry, scientifically valuable and commercially important. 2d. That the 
processes which it employs at the present time are unobjectionable in their char- 
acter, and leave the product uncontaminated. 3d. That the starch sugar 
thus made and sent into commerce is of exceptional purity and uniformity of 
composition, and contains no injurious substances. And, 4th, that though having 
at best only about three-fifths the sweetening power of cane sugar, yet starch 
sugar is in no way inferior to cane sugar in healthfulness, there being no evidence 
before the committee that maize starch sugar, either in its normal condition or 
fermented, has any deleterious effect upon the system, even when taken in large 
quantities.”’ 1%° 
“Rep. Nat. Acad. Sci. for 1883, p. 88. 
