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It appears, from the above, that the increase in production from 

 1860 to 1870 was 138 per cent ; and, from 1870 to 1880, 77 per cent^ 

 and that, with the exception of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana, no 

 state with a large production shows any falling ofl'; while, in certain 

 of the states, the increase has been remarkable. 



PRODUCTION OF SUGAR FROINI SORGHUM. 



Very many nianuficturers of sorghum have produced amounts of 

 sugar fairly comparable in quantity with the results obtained from sugar- 

 caue. 



Mr. A. J. Russell, who produced in 1879 over 22 tons of sorghum 

 sugar, polarizing 96°. 5, reports that he secured 15 to 23 gallons of 

 syrup from a ton of cane, and obtained, as first sugar, 4| pounds to the 

 gallon of syrup, 



Mr. John B. Thoms, an experienced sugar maker, reports that sor- 

 ghum sugar may be produced at an expense for manufacture of not 

 over 1 J ceuts per pounds. 



Professor Henry, of Madison, Wisconsin, made sugar in 1882 at an 

 '■xpense for- cultivation and manfacture of not over 4i cents per pound. 

 He obtained, as "firsts," 45 per cent of the weight of the syrup in 

 sugar of excellent quality ; and upon their experimental plats, Profes- 

 sor Swenson and himself secured, approximately^ a thousand pounds 

 of sugar per acre. 



The president of the Rio Grande Sugar Co. reported the expense of 

 working the cane in the mill as not being over 81.75 per ton. Much 

 of the cane yielded f )r each ton worked 65 pounds of first, besides the 

 molasses ; and, with s trghum in good condition as to maturity, the es- 

 timate of 100 pounds of sugar to each ton of cane is confidently made. 



Mr. Thoms estimates the expense of working 100 tons of cane into 

 eyrup and sugar at 880.25 -}- §42 for 30 barrels, equal 8122.25, or 

 81.22 for the manufacture of each ton of cane. 



These results are such as have been often reported, even by those 

 working with far more inexpensive plants. 



Edwin Blood, of Stockbridge, Wisconsin, reports that, in the season 

 of 1881, it cost him 11 cents per gallon to manufacture syrup, but in 

 1882 he could make it for 7^ cents per gallon. 



D. H. Anderson, of Kansas, reports 10 cents per gallon as the cost 

 of manufacture of a gallon of syrup. 



Now, at 15 gallons to the ton of cane, it costs at Rio Grande 11^ 

 cents, and Mr. Thoms 8^ cents, to manufacture a gallon of syrup-^ri- 

 sults closely agreeing with the results obtained from smaller mills. 

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