FUTURE PROSPECTS OF SORGHOI. 21 



from 1^ cents to 4 cents per pound, without any allowance for the 

 molasses. 



12. Excellent sugar has been made from sorghum : and where ac- 

 curate account of all expenses was kept, including cultivation of crop, 

 but no account made of the seed, the expense of production of the 

 sugar did not exceed 4i cents per pound. 



13. In view of these results, I have no doubt that sugar may even 

 now be produced at an expense of not over 2 cents per pouud ; and I 

 believe that, within a decade, it will be produced at an expense of not 

 over 1 cent per pound. 



