EXPERIMENTS IS' RECO^'ERES'G SUGAR FROM THE BAGASSE. 389 

 Analyses of Juices Obtained by Dijfusion — Continued. 



Sixrh experiment. Seventh experiment. 



Averace of all. 



From the above experiments it will be seen that the water, as it 

 gradually passed through successive barrels of bagasse, increased very 

 Tegularly iu density and in its content of sugar, and after about four 

 barrels of water had passed slowly through the bagasse, the water there- 

 after passed through without taking up any sugar ; that is, the bagasse 

 had been entirely exhausted of its sugar. 



It was found, as the average of nine experiments, that it was possi- 

 ble to recover 5.98 per cent of the weight of the bagasse taken in 

 sugars, and that, by these successive leachings, there was obtained ulti- 

 mately a juice as rich ia su^ :r as was the juice from the mill. 



Sugar from Sorghum Bagasse. 



RESULTS OF XIXE EXPEKl.MEXTS BY COLLIER, IX 1880. 



The bagasses experimented upon were not from good cane, but the 

 leachings were found to compare favorably with the juices expressed 

 from the cane by the mill. 



The importance of this matter is such as to justify further experi- 

 ment in this direction. From the above average results it would ap- 



