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In fact, the net price, which we know to have been fifteen cents, is 
reduced four, and then stands at eleven cents. 
For the same reason the price of hand labor is reduced to about 
seven cents. 
It will be remarked that I have abstained from speaking of the seed 
of the sorgho, when detailing above the productions of this grain. I 
have made the best employment of this seed the object of a special 
study, and I believe that I have discovered its. most profitable use, 
taking all things into consideration. It seems to me an undoubted 
fact, that there is a large profit from changing into sugar the starch con- 
tained in the seed of the sorgho, by submitting it to a vigorous and 
warm maceration, along with the canes. 
I previously said, that a metrical quintal of canes yielded me on dis- 
tillation about five quarts of alcohol at 94°. 
In this was included the juices expressed from the seed of the sorgho 
by means of maceration. 
I have passed without notice the so-called product to be obtained 
from the bagasse, because, like the seed, I submit them to the same 
maceration, in order to extract from them all the saccharine matter 
which has escaped the action of the cylinder. I find a further profit 
in this, since the bagasse, deprived of all its nutritive matter, after the 
completion of the process of maceration, should not be eaten by stock, 
as I have proved in my experience. As to a second crop being able 
to give an additional amount of alcoholic products, it seems to me 
little probable. We may count certainly upon a second crop, which 
can give a large quantity of forage to be cut up and eaten. 
All the writers who have discussed the sorgho sucré, have also men- 
tioned as one item of production, the cerosie, which covers the stalks of 
the cane. To my mind it is not worth while to engage in an opera- 
tion so costly by itself, when the profits resulting from it are very 
problematical. 
The computations I have given are the results of distillation under- 
taken with about twelve acres of crops made on alluvial soils, or river 
bottoms, which can be irrigated at high water, and naturally manured 
by the detritus of the old swamp, where my distillery has been located 
for a number of years. 
The truly surprising results which I have obtained, have been ad- 
