THE SUGAR SORGHO. 283° 
dissimilar appearance of the tufts coming from soils of different nature, 
and the great dissimilarity in the yield of seed of the sorgho, as stated 
by the different persons who have cultivated it.* 
The bulk of the seed of the sorgho sensibly diminishes, when they 
are used for feeding; the hull which surrounds them causes a de- 
crease of about one third when removed; but this is far from 
being a loss. Mr. Sicard has obtained by hulling nearly three bushels 
(weighing 175 pounds Troy) one hundred and twenty pounds Troy, of 
clean seed, and forty pounds of hulls. Thus a yield of 145 bushels 
will divide itself in six thousand two hundred pounds of seed, deprived 
of their envelope, and two thousand pounds of shells. As this shell is 
susceptible of assuming an important value, it will be always necessary 
to remove it from the seed before grinding. The flour obtained would 
be much whiter. M: Sicard shows the following result from the 
grinding of 2°84 bushels, weighing 174 pounds Troy, the seeds not 
hulled : 
‘Coarse Bran, - - - - - 35 pounds. 
Middling, Sy a - . = - 35 pounds. 
Fine Flour, - 2A) 2 - - - 100 pounds. 
This flour has a violet hue, very apparent. If bolted with the 
greatest care, it is made completely white ; but as it is raised it forms 
a dough in which the violet color becomes apparent again. The bread 
made from it is also tinted with this disagreeable color, nevertheless it 
digests very well, and is very pleasant to the taste. The flour of the 
sorgho, mixed with that of wheat, gives a bread of better color, better 
raised, with a less gummy feeling when broken than pure sorgho, and 
comparable in every point to the ration (?) bread, the color of which 
it very much resembles, a fact which will militate against it, by reason 
of the habit the public have of according to bread excellence in pro- 
portion to its whiteness. Generally speaking, this is entirely wrong, 
* Thus Mr. Wray gives 3750 pounds, Troy, of seed from 195,000 pounds of cane. 
In Georgia, United States, they have likewise obtained a product of 3750 pounds; 
Mr. Hardy, six thousand seven hundred from two hundred and twenty thousand 
pounds; Mr. Sicard, eight thousand two hundred from one hundred and sixty thous- 
and pounds; M. Itier, 8,888 pounds from 114,000; M. Ture!, nine thousand three hun- 
dred pounds of seed; M. Hetet, nineteen thousand pounds from eighty thousand 
pounds; M. Vallarino, twenty four thousand trom 256,000 pounds. 
