IMPROVEMENTS SUGGESTED.  - 131 
manufacturer and chemist, which is certainly practicable 
and valuable, it would, I think, leave nothing to be desired 
in the crushing apparatus. This improvement consists in 
introducing between the feed and discharge rolls of the 
mill, or above them, “a pipe placed longitudinally, pierced 
with numerous small orifices to permit jets of steam to issue, 
which would be absorbed by the begassa, and acting by dis- 
placement, allow the juice to be expressed, which is firmly 
held by capillary forces in the spongy tissue of the begassa ; 
the steam pipe being supplied from the boiler of the engine, 
and the mill inclosed in a case of sheet-iron to prevent loss 
of steam.” 
The softer texture of sorghum cane warrants the state- 
ment that at least 75 per cent. of the weight of the stalk 
could be extracted by such means, without loss of time or 
any considerable increase of expense. 
It cannot be doubted that a mill so constructed, and pos- 
sessed of such advantages, would, if brought into general 
use, add one-fourth to the annual production of sorghum in 
the United States. 
