534 



SORGHUM, 



amount of crystallizable sugar jDresent in the juice, and recovered in 

 the syrup, was less than 30 per cent. 



A few of the results attained appear to be only explicable upon the 

 supposition that there have been slight errors in analysis; but revision 

 of the work fails to reveal such errors, aud the resulis are given in full, 

 without omission, hoping that future investigation may solve difficulties 

 wdiich at present appear irreconcilable. 



The committee of the National Academy of Sciences, in their re- 

 port upon the " Sorghum Sugar ludustry," p. 50, in reference to the 

 experiments of 1879 and '81, the results of which have been given in 

 the preceding tables, reports as follows : 



