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Sede eee ease ehewe rere sin Se CER SHO eee Pwr sine es eeeersesrecnvesa@ 
Si ee id= xe BLN @ o's) no pela ald we ees sls Ss ve fe Se ut Fe Cig 6 ae Eh e'@ Riele 4 5 ws wigs & ere 6 wa 
ee ew OO er a Oe a ee a ee i we ee ie cee ary 
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Sumber of aot eure spleen SAR eis Ie iets an bse Si hae eT ea died Ph ah oleate 
Fe ecek Gh ndeee ithe lai s Pe SRR re es tie 0a oY dats Seta Beals oop 85. 80 gee 
REE PRU TEV URENNE Aone Dine ET ts, tev dretehe BA Ot PSHE Saat et ee i eyoats 88370 ae 
Minimum ' AE ea ee See. BN hk heat a Bb TAP es - 82.30 Sake 
eet f 
The analyses of the Sey masse cuites, and some other products are not yet 453 ey 
_ complete, but will be given in full in Bulletin No. 18. ee ck 
_, The ratio of sucrose to glucose in the fresh chips and diffusion juices for the sea- tee ke 
Ee on was as follows: oe 
MM rh tee rire Sep, Oo Re eae eakoy flues we 1: 2.80 “ee 
BRC he et nn GR 2 4s song aka Retained RRA a ete Sede 13. 2.95- tr ‘ 
Py “This parka seem to show one of two things, either that there was absolutely no 
= A cete in the battery or that the glucose in the cane was not so readily diffused DES 
‘as the sucrose. The latter hypothesis seems to be borne out by the analyses of thie ae 
—e exhausted chips, as shown in the following table of analyses : tle 
| Sucrose and glucose in juice from exhausted chips and corresponding diffusion Juices, é5 
“1 = % ; te 
na Bt | Exhausted chips. | Diffusion juices. Ses 
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oat Date. ] 4 
No. | Sucrose. | Glucose. | No. | Sucrose. | Glucose. ; Yas 
} ] 
how aa ' PEE Pea ea ae os 
a Rite Coes Beg Bic, oe a5 } 248 | eet ae) ee 5.90, 3.06 my 
a CO eS be ee | 260 | 7 | 51 |. 259; 6.58} | 2.09 + 
ae Wiech Be NE) kes 267 | 63 | 29 | 266! 6.17 2.03 * 
2 Methine gs Voces | 280 9 | . .48| 279 5.97 1.89 
oer ONG TAGs Fhe vd aN gta | .289 | 52 24 | 7 6.02 | 1.80 
ee CLONE ea aa hee ae | 294 | re} 27 | 2393 | 5.66 | 1:%5 , 
ar. RIGRAT alos an Gee. | 313 | 99 | 43) 312) 5.66) 2.02 A 
ae > Averfige.......... tral, ) 78 | 40 ese: | 5.90 | 2,09 | “ 
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ae ABSTRACT OF. sate goes OF BE. B. COWGILL. ao 
ae i 
: ? HISTORICAL SKETCH. 
. Thesorghum plant was introduced into the United States in 185354. 
ae by the Patent Office, which then embraced all there was of the United 
States Department. of Agriculture. Its juice was known to be sweet, __ 
x and. chemists were not long in discovering that it contained a consid- ; 
erable Dercentaee of some substance giving the reactions of cane — 
a sug ar. The opinion that the reactions were due to cane sugar re- : 
Bi caved repeated confirmations in the formation of true cane-sugar 
a crystals i in sirups made from sorghum. Yet the small amounts that 
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peter: oe srprmsaee compared with the amounts present i in the juices 
