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and without such unnecessary loss of juice, would have been, for each 

 ton of cane worked, a product of 



81.6 pounds of sugar, 

 8.33 gallons of molasses. 

 5.36 bushels of seed. 

 The above results are very interesting, as evidence that, even in far 

 distant lands, the sorghum maintains its character as a sugar producing 

 plant. That the product of sugar would have been much increased, 

 by allowing still greater maturity of the crop to be attained, can 

 hardly be doubted, in view of the numerous results recorded. 



The following analyses of the two varieties of sorghum, of the ash, 

 as also of the sugars, molasses, and the ash of the molasses, are fur- 

 nished by Mr. Fairgrieve, and are of interest in connection with the 

 above results : 



Analr/ses of Six Samples of Sorghum (^Dried, 212° F.) 



The ash consisted of : 



Potassium. 



Sodium 



Oxygen (comb'd P. & S.) . 



Lime 



Magnesia 



Iron and Al. phosphates. . 



Phosphoric acid 



Sulphuric acid.. 



Chlorine (comb'd P. & S.) 

 Silica 



1.24 

 ..37 

 09 



.29 

 .24 

 .13 

 .38 

 .37 

 .68 

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