advantages in corn sugar ; there is one, however, which 

 is, that its manufacture exists in theory but not in 

 practice. The machinery for corn sugar is at a mini- 

 mum, for it does not practically exist. We also read 

 that " the proportion of crystallizable sugar appears 

 to be larger than is obtained from the cane in Lou- 

 isiana." If such an assertion was true in 1844, wn 7 

 should it not be in 1881 ? Of all the attempts made in 

 this cornstalk utilization, those in the Southern States 

 were by far the most successful. Those in the North 

 amounted to but little, and even in the latter case the 

 syrup is said to have crystallized only after two 

 months. Why this happened no explanation is given; 

 six hundred and eighty-eight pounds, however, are said 

 to have been obtained per acre. If we admit that this 

 is the average, even with the above attempt of crystal- 

 lization, the yield would be one-half that obtained from 

 sugar beets in the Northern States ; and the attempt 

 to extract as much sugar from cornstalks as from 

 beets would be absurd. What we have already said 

 should be sufficient to condemn this plant as a source 

 of sugar, even in the Southern States. 



After many years of experiments it was concluded 

 that the corn sugar would not easily crystallize, and 

 until 1875 little or no mention is made of it in 

 the Agricultural Reports. Some years ago, as we 

 have already stated, when it was suggested and 

 asserted that sugar could be made from cornstalks, 

 hopes were again entertained as to the results that 

 might be expected. Attention was called to the fact 

 that if one acre out of fifty grown in the United States, 

 or one-eleventh of the yearly acreage cultivated in 

 Illinois, was utilized for sugar manufacture, it would 

 supply the home demand. 



A well-known author estimated that 2 1 ,700 pounds 

 Kansas corn may be grown to the acre, from the stalks 



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