THE SUGAR SORGHO. 
and twenty gallons of alcohol, at the price of about seventy- 
five cents per gallon - - . ad) yes - - 
2. Thirty-two thousand pounds of leaves, furnishing a very 
excellent green forage, at. two francs a quintal, - 
3. Eighty thousand to ninety-five thousand pounds of the 
residue after maceration, at one franc fifty centimes the 
quintal, about - - - - - - . 
4. Seed, one hundred and seventy-four pounds. Three 
thousand nine hundred pounds of hulled seed at twenty-five 
francs the hundred kilogrammes, - - - =~ = 
One thousand two hundred and sixty pounds of hulls for 
dyeing, at fifteen francs the hundred kilogrammes, - - 
Total, - - = = = E a = y 
EXPENSES. 
1. Cost of good culture, with manure and irrigation, compris- 
ing the cost of gathering, of cartage to the manufactory, 
about one hundred dollars to one hundred and forty 
dollars, average - - - - + - - - 
2. Cost of distillation and rectification, at six dollars to 
the twenty-six gallons, - = ee = 
3. Hulling the seed, at the price of about twenty cents per 
bushel, - - - - - - - - - - 
Total, - - 2 i : 1 2 c . f 
Raw product, - SY dnt eaters iat Pale eae han ae & St ae ag 
Expenses, as elias site eu at a tire . dkikear dane 
Net profit, Fe Sn ee ge ee kyu : 
291 
$625 
48 
95 
$120 
$325 
$856 
325 
—_. 
$531 
Now if, in place of putting twenty dollars, or about seventy-five cents 
per gallon, as the price of the alechol, we take its actual value in our 
market, that is to say, $1 05 to $1 12, that is at once an increase of 
the profit of not less than $240. Admitting that the price of alcohol 
may descend to $12 in a few years, still the industrial manufacture of 
it by the farmer will bring in a net profit per acre of about $111. 
One is tempted, in view of these figures, to think it a species of 
