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SORGHUM. 



PEARL MILLET. 



An experiment was made with the juice of pearl millet, with the 

 following results: Stripj^ed stalks taken, 13" pounds. These were 

 passed through an old mill, which only gave 29 pounds of juice, or 22.3 

 per cent of the weiglit of stripped stalks. This juice had a specific 

 gravity of 1062, and it gave, upon evaporation, 2 pounds 10 ounces 

 of syrup, or 9 per cent of the weight of juice. Ihis syrup readily 

 crystallized, and gave, in the first lot of sugar. 17^ ounces of sugar, 

 or 42 per cent of the weight of the syrup. The sugar polarized 92°. 



Owing to the enormous acreage yield of this plant, it seems worth 

 further investigation as a possible source of sugar. 



* Burned. 



