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The exigencies of the case will demand the establishment of suitable 
distilleries organized upon the plan of those already existing in the 
southern departments. Weare happy to be able to announce that 
projects of this kind are already in process of execution, and that a 
large company has been formed whose operations would be as profit- 
able as they are vast. 
A further advantage of the Chinese Sugar Cane, which it is only 
needful for us to make generally understood, is that it will cause the 
distillation of wines to completely disappear. Sorgho alcohol once 
coming into use, there will be no longer any reason for burning infe- 
rior wines, but rather they will necessarily be driven to improving 
them, before being able to make them enter into general consumption. 
To conclude our work, we call attention to the great effects which the 
sugar sorgho is destined to produce in all countries where it is propa- 
gated, not only in France, Algeria, Lombardy, Tuscany, but ‘still in 
Russia for its southern provinces; and in the United States it isa 
question whether this precious plant may not replace the sugar cane. 
One of the large planters of Alabama, Dr. Terrill, is making this 
year a plantation of some twenty acres. The future presented by the 
sorgho is a vast one. Its influence upon our agriculture is marked, 
and the efforts of this general company for manufacturing the sorgho 
will have a great influence upon the success of the sorgho, and at the 
same time we may say upon the progress of southern agriculture, so 
backward nntil now, causing it to become, if not the first of our 
country, at least one of the most rich and flourishing. 
