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na BUTE. 
BEST METHODS OF MAKING IT—EXPERIENCE OF AMERICAN GROWERS. 
WuHILst contending chemists have alternately sung 
the praises of, and decried against, the sorgho as a sugar 
producing plant, and opulent sugar refiners have trem- 
bled at the threatened invasion of their accustomed mo- 
nopolies, all have united in the opinion that it is indeed 
a plant capable of affording an abundant and excellent 
crop of syrup. 
The American public received a most unexpected and 
agreeable surprise in the month of October last, by the 
publication of a circular from Colonel Richard Peters, of 
Atlanta, Georgia, which gave the remarkable results he 
had obtained in making syrup from the juice of the 
sorgho. So complete, so triumphant was his success, and 
so full was it of magnificent promise for the future, that 
with one accord it was caught up from press to press and 
scattered to every quarter of the Union. The papers of 
Maine and Texas, of Maryland and Utah, discussed its 
probable importance, and with but little delay Mr. Peters 
became one of the most widely known men of the country. 
The result was, that from that day to this, he is in the 
receipt of a vast number of letters of inquiry, and in self- 
defence was obliged to issue a pamphlet of directions for 
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