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that, in every township of the country, these methods are practically 

 understood. 



4. The greater part of the maize consumed in this country, is used 

 for the purpose of feeding and fattening swine ; and numerous analy- 

 ses of several different varieties of sorghum seed, have shown that 

 the proximate chemical composition of sorghum seed is identical with 

 that of maize, the sorghum seed differing no more from maize in com- 

 position than does one variety of maize from another. 



5. Numerous feeding experiments have established the fact, that, for 

 feeding and fattening purposes, sorghum seed is the equivalent of 

 maize, and may be substituted for it. 



6. As much sorghum seed may be produced from an acre as of 

 maize, on the same land ; and wherever maize may be grown success- 

 fully in this country, one variety or another of sorghum may be as 

 successfully grown. 



7. Fully ninety-nine per cent of the sorghum now grown in the 

 Avorld, is grown solely for the seed and the forage obtained in the 

 leaves; and abundant testimony is given, that, for the seed alone, the 

 crop may be profitably grown, while many of those using the stalks 

 for syrup and sugar declare that the seed enables them to produce the 

 stalks free of all cost. 



8. It is only after the seed of any variety of sorghum is quite ma- 

 ture, that the maximum of sugar in the stalks is attained ; so that there 

 is nothing to prevent the securing of both the maximum of seed and 

 the maximum of sugar from the crop of sorghum. 



9. Many thousands of analyses of over fifty varieties of sorghum 

 have conclusively established the fact, that, at maturity, the stalk of 

 sorghum contains an amount of sugar equal to that found in the best 

 sugar-cane grown in Louisiana; and already, by processes and appara- 

 tus identical with those employed upon the sugar plantations of Cuba 

 and Louisiana, several hundred tons of sorghum sugar have been put 

 upon the market in competition with sugar from the tropical sugar- 

 cane. 



10. The testimony of numerous manufacturers of syrups from sor- 

 ghum, shows that the syrup may be manufactured at an expense vary- 

 ing in different localities, and with different manufacturers, from 12 to 

 25 cents per gallon, from cane delivered free at the mill, even when 

 working with small mills instead of the improved appliances of the 

 large plantations. 



11. A yield of 6 to 8 pounds of sugar from the gallon of syrup, 

 made at the proper time, may be fairly expected ; and thus the sugar 

 would cost, according to the expense of manufacture above given. 



