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sold at four francs per kilogramme—cerosie should be worth three 
franes fifty cents; this would give a receipt of three hundred and 
thirty francs sixty-two cents, and a net profit of eighty-eight francs 
sixty-two cents,to be added to the other net profits of the sorgho 
culture. This item would moreover assume a new importance, if we 
find (as I doubt not we shall) processes of extraction of the wax, 
more economical than the one employed by me, which consists in 
scraping the stalk with a knife, in a similar manner to the process 
employed with the wax-bearing palm tree. 
The forage for stock which may be obtained on a hectare, both by 
stripping the leaves and by the after-math, has a determined value, 
and it is no exaggeration to estimate it at two hundred metrical 
quintals* when the stalks have been dried, and this, at four francs 
per quintal, would yield eight hundred francs. 
The total profit and expense of a well cultivated hectare of sorgho 
sucré (molasses and syrup not being considered) would be as follows : 
7954 litres, 68 of alcohol, at140 fr. per hectolitre, the actual 
price in the principal markets of France, deducting 10 fr. per hecto- 
litre for transportation, waste, and a teny of all kind, would be 130 
fr. per hectolitre, = - - . - - - 10,341 
108 kil. 400 grammes cerosie, at 3 fr. 50c.per kil - 330 62 
20,800 kilogrammes forage, at 4fr. per quintal, - - 800 
11,471 62 
EXPENSES. 
Labor, 80 fr.; cultivation, 40 fr.,_ - . - 120 fr. 
Sowing, . - Sat : - 30 
Hoeing, weeding, thinning out, tilted adnate 5 
Irrigations, - . - - - - - 40 
Manure used, - - - - - - ne 
Harvesting, - eet ae - - - 80 
Rent of ground, BE Perkeae raat here ee ete Set ee 
Cost of extracting wax, —Laihahiiicssaet Tic cenit 
772 
* Quintal, 112 lbs. 
