198 PLANT AND ORGANIC CHEMISTRY 



Dutiable. Amount. Value. 



Molasses 39,018,637 gallons $5,587,884.00 



Sugar 2,498,258,590 pounds 71,606,918.00 



Sugar candy, etc 23,333.00 



Total $77,218,135.00 



Value of all imported sugars and molasses. . . $86,392,747.00 



The value of all imported sugars and molasses, 



for the year ending June 30, 1885 76,738,719.00 



For the year ending June 30, 1884 103,884,275.00 



The total value r of domestic sugars and molas- 

 ses amounted to 43,037,409.03 



The amount of money sent out of the country 

 during the last year to meet the demands of 

 sugar consumption was 135,000,000.00 2 



The above figures show the amount of sugar and molasses 

 consumed in the United States annually. If we are to obtain 

 all of these products from our own lands, it is a reasonable 

 question to ask, how is this to be accomplished ? 



Former analyses show that the yield of sugar from Louisiana 

 cane is less than from cane grown in the tropics. The future 

 prosperity of Louisiana growers need not suffer from this 

 poorer juice. The recent experiments at Fort Scott 3 demon- 

 strated that a given weight of cane, without notably increasing 

 the cost of manufacture, yielded thirty per cent, more sugar 

 than had ever been made before. The Southern sugar in- 

 dustry will thrive with the encouragement of a greater sugar 

 yield, and by the introduction of more scientific methods of 

 growing and manufacture. 



Of late years the manufacture of sugar from Sorghum sac- 

 char alum has attracted attention. So far, as a business project, 

 it has proved a financial failure. From the recent chemical 

 reports of the Agricultural Bureau, under proper conditions 

 of cultivation, this cereal promises to become a profitable 

 source of sugar supply. 



I give a few of the chemical results of the late Fort Scott 



1 Bui. No. 5, Chem. Div. Dept. of Agr., pp. 7, 8. 



2 From Bui. No. 2, Chem. Soc. of Washington, p. 1 6. 



3 Bui. No. 14, Chem. Div. Dept. of Agr., 1886. H. W. Wiley, Chemist. 



