REPORT OF U.S. AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 3 
he made is stated to be of good quality, but the quantity per acre 
could not be practically demonstrated, because the amount produced 
was on too small a scale to afford a useful basis for computation. This 
has been the case in most of the instances reported, and the mere pro- 
duction of these small quantities of sugar is useful only as corroborat- 
ing the fact of its existence in the juice. Now that it has been proved 
beyond the shade of a doubt that sugar can be made from Sorgho and 
Imphee, and that in large quantities ; of course this branch of industry 
will be undertaken with greater or less profit, according to existing 
conditions. Sugar may be a profitable crop in distriets far removed 
from the seaboard or from the great lines of transport ; but there 
should be a careful scrutiny of many possible contingencies before 
capital is extensively employed in this way. 
If, however, it is a mooted question whether we should grow the new 
canes for a sugar crop, it is much less questionable if, in almost any 
locality, they would not be very remunerative as a source of alcohol. 
In this case, all that is necessary is to have command of any desired 
amount of fuel, either wood or coal, and then the nearer the seaboard. 
or to large cities of the interior, the farm may lie, the more certain will 
the cultivator be to have a profit from his crop. The cold rainy 
seasons which injure the secretion of cane sugar in the stalk, operate 
rather favorably than otherwise for the production of alcohol. The 
sugar in the stalks will be in large proportion giucose, and thus one 
step in its transformation towards alcohol is saved, for cane sugar must 
change into glucose before it can pass into the alcoholic fermentation- 
To afford some idea of the range of latitude in which the Sorgho 
will grow, the effects of manures and soils upon the height of stalk, the 
varying time required in different localities to complete its growth, and 
the keight and diameter of stalk, I give the following tabular state. 
ment from the American Agriculturist, of returns made to that paper 
during the present season. 
