SUPPOSED YEARLY SORGHUM SUGAR MANUFAC- 

 TURED IN THE UNITED STATES.* 



i86i 80,400 Ibs. 1870 



1862 i37,43o 



1863 183,795 



1864 208,300 



1865 280,330 



1866 511,565 



1867 140,658 



1868 200,676 



1869 224,000 



U.S. 



1872 17 2 ,995 



1873 ___i84,23o 



1874 182,050 



1875 108,840 



1876 97,420 



1877 80,760 



as shown after twenty years' agitation, kept up 

 by those directly interested in sorghum machinery. 

 The total amount produced, if it be actual, was 

 the same in 1877 as in 1861, or, in other words, 

 80,760 pounds. (This represents 40,000 pounds 

 less than was obtained at the Delaware Beet Sugar 

 Factory, which worked but thirty days, under very 

 unfavorable circumstances.) These figures also show 

 that there has been a continual decrease in the pro- 

 duction during the last ten years of this supposed 

 sorghum sugar for the entire United States. Of the 

 important States producing sugar and syrup, we may 

 mention Ohio and Iowa. The total area devoted to the 

 said culture in Ohio was 30,872 acres in 1862, and 9,426 

 in 1872, proving a decline of two-thirds in ten years. 

 The sugar supposed to have been obtained was, 

 however, greater by 10,000 pounds, notwithstanding 

 diminished area devoted to its cultivation, proving how 

 little reliance is to be placed upon the figures above 

 given. In 1862 and 1866 the area devoted to it in 

 Iowa was 37,607 and 25,796, showing a decline in the 

 interest in sorghum in those years, possibly owing to 

 the war, etc. Even if the interest had increased during 



* The above table is taken from the Government Agricultural Report. We had 

 hoped completing it, but give the task up in despair, as we have written letter upon 

 letter to the Agricultural Department, at Washington, which, instead of answering 

 our question as to the total production of sorghum sugar in 1878, 1879, J 88o, sends 

 in reply the sorghum reports above referred to, in which the data was not given. This 

 evidently proves that the term SUPPOSED (that we make use of) are not exaggera- 

 tions. 



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