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This was dried at 120° Fahrenheit, ground to a flour and ex- 

 tracted with boiling alcohol. 



The alcoholic extract, properly purified and polarized, indi- 

 cated that one ton of unstripped and untopped cane contained 

 one hundred and twenty pounds of 100 test sugar. 



For practical purposes it is therefore safe to assume that the 

 entire lot of 728 tons of cane used in the diffusion trial aver- 

 aged not less than 114 pounds of 100 test sugar per ton. Of this 

 114 pounds the diffusors secured 79.9 pounds. The diffusion ba- 

 gasse and the waste water from the battery must have contained 

 at least 34.1 pounds, or 30 per cent of the sugar produced in the 

 field. It was ascertained that the bagasse and water did con- 

 tain this lost sugar, and it was caused by the bagasse not being 

 cut in a uniform manner or size, and the work of the diffusors 

 not being as complete as it should have been. 



It would be a great gratification to be able to give you still 

 further quotations from this very valuable and carefully pre- 

 pared report, bnt I will not trespass and will close my reference 

 to this report by stating the opinion of these gentlemen. 



In regard to this industry, after their close attention and 

 painstaking care, during the last five years' work at this place, 

 where many hundred thousand pounds of sugar and a very large 

 amount of molasses have been made by them, this report says: 



' ' Both Superintendent Hughes and the chemist of this station 

 believe that the sorghum sugar business can be made profitable 

 and claim that the correctness of this opinion can be demon- 

 strated by a house equipped to work fifteen tons of cane daily, 

 and the amount of money necessary to build and equip it will 

 not exceed $5,000." 



I do not feel willing to extend this address by quoting from 

 the report of Prof. Stubbs, of the Louisiana Experimental Sta- 

 tion, except to say that he reports that the cane grown on the 

 station was very ijromising in the quantity of sugar it indicated, 

 was very good, and the quantity of cane grown to the acre very 

 promising. 



I will make some reference to the statistics of the sugar pro- 

 duction for the year 1886-7. 



The amount of beet sugar produced in Europe as reported by 

 Licht's monthly statement is 2,620,000 tons. The amount of 

 cane sugar will probably reach 2,500,000 tons more and probably 

 the aggregate is larger than ever reported before. Willett, 

 Hamlin & Co., of ISTew York, estimate the consumption of the 

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