20 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN 



A proper defecation of the sorghum juice before its 

 concentration would doubtless accomplish that result. 

 In making these statements here, I do not intend to 

 assert that most of our Northern, and particularly our 

 Northwestern States can profitably engage in the pro- 

 duction of sorghum sugar. Localities liable to early 

 frosts and short seasons had better confine themselves, 

 if at all engaged in sorghum cultivation, to the manu- 

 facture of syrups, for unripe cane is entirely unfit for 

 the manufacture of crystallized sugar. The Middle 

 and some of the Southern States have apparently not 

 sufficiently appreciated the value of this crop.* 



At the beginning of December 1860, Goessmann 

 abruptly terminated his engagement with the East- 

 wicks, and went at once to Cuba, for the purpose of 

 studying the agricultural industries, especially the cul- 

 tivation of sugar and tobacco, of the West Indies. 

 There he remained nearly four months, visiting many 

 plantations, witnessing the working of the sugar-cane, 

 experimenting with the juice, and thoroughly investi- 

 gating the processes of manufacturing and refining 

 sugar in the island. 



On his return from the West Indies in March of 1861 

 he was invited by Dr. George H. Cook, 1 professor of 

 geology at Rutgers College and state geologist of New 

 Jersey, 'to participate in a scientific investigation for 

 the improvement of the manufacture of dairy salt at 

 Syracuse, New York.' Goessmann seems to have made 

 a favourable impression at Syracuse, as he was offered, 



1 In 1852 Dr. Cook was sent abroad by the State of New York to study 

 the salt deposits of Europe. 



