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Ann I i/aes of varieties of sorghum grown at Baton Rouge, La. 



Analyses of varieties grown at North Louisiana Experiment Station, Calhoun, La. 



An inspection of above tables will show tbat Early Amber reached 

 its maximum in July, say one hundred days after planting. Golden 

 Hod and Honduras never reached maturity, the storm of the 18th pros- 

 trating them before the maximum of sugar was reached. The other 

 varieties attained their maximum during August. 



Could these experiments have been worked during August, it is be- 

 lieved that most excellent results would have been attained. Up to 

 September 4, just as suckers began to appear at.cach joint on the pros- 

 trate cane, the latter had lost but little in sucrose since the storm of the 

 19th. After the suckers began to grow the loss was rapid and heavy, 

 as is shown by the mill juices of September 8 to 20. 



The canes at Oalhouu were not injured, the storm not extending as 

 far north as this station. They have therefore preserved their sugar up 

 to October 1 and suffered little or no loss. 



EXPERIMENTS IN DIFFUSION. 



All the machinery being in position and ready for use, a trial run waa 

 made on September 8, using the Early Orange variety. The cutters did 

 their work well ; so did the diffusion cells, except now and then a leak 

 which was easily closed. The larger heater, which heated the juice be- 

 fore entering the cells, was out of order and could not be used either in 

 this or the next trial. The fan which had been furnished as adapted to 

 the cleaning of sorghum chips failed utterly to do its work. The shaker 



