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sorgho can there remain on the field, without freezing, for the whole 
winter. 
It is evident that in the vine countries, the harvesting and manu- 
facturing of the sorgho sucré, coinciding with the time for the vintage, 
which occupies all the desirable forces, would there offer to cultivators 
great difficulties to be overcome. 
The saccharine richness of the stalks not seeming to diminish by the 
fact of the maturity of its grains, it is very much to the interest of the 
cultivators to allow it to ripen, and the yield in seeds may be estimated 
at nearly 150 bushels to the two and a half acres (sixty bushels to 
the acre), weighing each from 175 to 200 Ibs. We will conclude. by 
a statement much exaggerated as to cost, much moderated as to profits, 
upon the culture of the sorgho on about two and a half acres of ground. 
Cost of culture and manuring, about - - $60 
Cost of distillation per hectolitre of alcohol, at six dollars 
per fifty-eight bushels, - - - : 120 
Topping and stripping of 125 acres of seed, - - 20 
Total costs per hectare, - - - - $200 
Prorits. 
Twenty hectolitres of alcohol, at about $7 15, _ - - $400 
145 bushels of seed, at about $1 45 per bushel, - 200 
Coloring matter of the seeds ? 
Total cost receipts, - - - . - $600 
Total expenses, - > - - - 200 
Net profit to the hectare, - - - - $400 
This sum of $400 in net profit, which results from the figures of 
the cost, comprising the interest on the capital employed in the in- 
dustrial manufacture, represents a profit sufficiently high to encourage 
the industrial cultivation of the sorgho, wherever an addition of the 
suitable machines can be made to a farm. We have purposely 
avoided mentioning the value of the leaves as a forage, in order to 
make better understood the particular interest the Zodlogical Acclima- 
tion Society takes in the extension of this culture. 
