548 SOEGHUM. 



Analyses of Sugar and Molasses Obtained from Black Sorghum. 



Analysis of Ash of Molasses. 



Per cent. 



Potassium 3 16 



Sodium .' . .93 



Oxygen ccomb'd P. & S.) 65 



Lime 95 



Magnesia 91 



Iron peroxide C6 



Alumina 06 



Copper oxide* 02 



Phosphoric acid 87 



Sulphuric acid 28 



Chlorine (comb'd P. & S.). 1 27 



Silica 07 



9.23 



Amabele. 

 In a recent letter from Leonard Wray, who first introduced the sor- 

 ffhiinis from Africa into the United States, he writes : "The Zulu name, 

 ' Imphee,' is the sugar producing sorghum ; whereas ' Balee' or ' Ma-ha- 

 lee,' is the uame for ^ Dhura' or Kaffir corn (Sorghum vulgare)." He 

 also says ' En-ya-ma' means food, the grain of which makes such good 

 flour ; and he advises that the sorghum should be sown in triple rows, 

 four feet from center to center, the triple rows being 8 inches apart, 

 and the stalks 7 inches apart in each roAV, equal to 55,640 canes to the 

 acre. 



Sorghum Sugar jJToduced in 1883. 



According to the statement of the President of the Mississippi Valley 

 Cane Growers' Association, there Avas produced at the Champaign, 111., 

 Sorghum Sugar Works, from 145 acres, 1,435 tons of cane; and from 

 2,400 tons of cane, there was obtained 160,000 pounds of sugar and 

 40,000 gallons of molasses. 



The season is described as being the most unfavorable for thirty 

 years. 



At Hutchinson, Kansas, some 200,000 pounds of sugar, besides a 

 large quantity of molasses. 



* Probably from vacuum pan or battery. 



