COMPOSITIOX OF SORGnr:M SEED. 



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sorghum, it is most important that advantage betaken of every detail : 

 attention to which gives promise of increasing the profit of this new 

 industry. 



A discussion of what may be regarded as the waste products of sor- 

 ghum is of extreme importance, and is given in this chapter. 



Among waste products may be classed the seed, bagasse, and leaves, 

 and the refuse products in the manufacture of sugar, viz.: scum and 

 sediment of the defecator, the sediments of the settling tanks, and 

 skimmings from the evajwrator. 



The most imjx)rtant of these is the seed. For this alone sorghum 

 has, for centuries at least, been grown over a large portion of the 

 globe, as maize is in the United States. The yield i)er acre of seed is 

 practically the same as maize, and its uses in those countries depend- 

 ing u|X)n it mainly are the same as maize. Analysis shows it to have 

 the same composition, and practical feeding experiments confirm the 

 indications of chemical analysis that it is at least the equal of maize 

 in its feeding value. 



COMPOSITION OF SOKGHUM SEED. 



Analyses of several varieties of sorghum seed have been made, with 

 a view of determining their probable value as food for animals ; and, 

 lor the purpose of comparison, an average of the analyses of the grain 

 of twentv-one varieties of common field com is jriven : 



The above analyses show the average composition of the sorghum 

 seed and corn to be in those nutritive constituents which are of value, 



