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not sufficient for the manufacture. It is to be hoped that experiments 
may be undertaken for the preservation of the canes in pits or by 
other methods. The preservation of the juice as M. Vialle practices, 
merits some commendation, and offers a great field for research, and 
much reward for the labors bestowed upon it. After several years of 
experiment, it is probable that experience on one part, and researches 
and investigation on the other, will resolve, in a satisfactory manner, 
this problem of prolonging, for four or five months, the season for dis- 
tilling the sorgho. 
It has been said, with a certain degree of reason, that in the South 
and Algeria, the harvesting and treatment of the sorgho coinciding 
with the vintage, which occupies all the hands, there would, in that 
case, be for our farmers a great difficulty to be overcome. Let us ob- 
serve, however, that the harvest of the sorgho is very simple, that it 
will be very much lightened by the addition of mechanical appliances, 
and that, after all, it is possible, though, in some degree, restrained, to 
retard the epoch for manufacture. Finally, as to suitability of soils, 
the sorgho will not find itself adapted to exactly the same localities, 
and thus the difficulty would be obviated. 
Finally, admitting the fact that a real embarrassment is caused by 
the coincidence of the time for these two harvests, there will not result 
from it other than a very good effect. The introduction into the 
South of agricultural machines for taking care of the sugar sorgho ; 
for every one hearing this plan spoken of, and wishing to profit by the 
advantages which it brings, will be obliged to make use of machines 
to be drawn by animals. On the other hand, the other cultivations 
will be simplified at the same time, and the vine and the sorgho will 
profit by it; whilst, in the other case, the gathering of the crop bunch 
by bunch, and the numerous difficulties which manufacturers would 
have, would remain almost the same as now. On this subject we will 
remark, that it is well to understand that the most minute manual 
operations gain vastly by being executed in a systematic manner ; and 
the grains of these two harvests, so similar in pecuniary profit, will com- 
pel a simplification and systemization heretofore overlooked. In bad 
processes of manufacture, with bad utensils, with directors and labor- 
ers lacking intelligence, a large portion of time, at the period of harvest, 
