164 ANNUAL REPORT 



From these causes the industry is in a depressed condition, 

 many plants were ;not operated the past season and more will 

 dismantle the coming season, 



Eecent developments have disclosed two processes for clean- 

 ing the cane and purifying the juice that give promise of inestim- 

 able value to the manufacturer of soi'ghum sugar and molasses, 

 we therefore feel the urgent necessity of extended experiments 

 to determine the value of these and other processes, hoping to 

 restore again the prosperous condition prevailing upon the ad- 

 vent of these spurious syruj)S on the market. 



Be it resolved therefore : That our National Congress be urged 

 to appropriate the sum of $10,000 to be expended under the di- 

 rection of the commissioner of agriculture for the exclusive benefit 

 of the sorghum syrup manufacturers of this country. 



(Signed) A. S. Chapman, 

 A. C. Porter, 

 E. W. Deming, 

 W. F. Leitzman, 



Commissioners. 



GLUCOSE adulterations. 



Resolved — That this Association of Indiana Cane Growers in 

 convention assembled this thirty first day of December, 1886, do 

 hereby petition the National Congress to consider the fraudulent 

 adulteration of the sweet products of the country with glucose, 

 and to pass laws prohibiting such adulteration compelling man- 

 ufacturers and those who handle glucose to represent it as glucose, 

 and making the adulteration of any sweet article by glucose a 

 misdemeanor; 



Resolved — That our senators and representatives be requested 

 to see these, our wishes, properly brought before the National 

 Congress. 



On motion, the above resulutions were approved and the secre- 

 tary was directed to correspond with the Indiana Cane Growers 

 Association, and express our sympathy with them in their efforts 

 to drive adulterated sugar products out of the market. 



Prof. Porter referred to the action taken last year by the 

 Louisiana Sugar Growers Association to procure legislation i^ro-' 

 hibitiug the adulteration of syrups by glucose, to the subsecxuent 

 calling for contributions to enforce the law. It was recognized 

 to be the fact that adulterations had been carried to such an ex- 



