working of the plant, as before stated, is not practical. 

 Some sorghum sugar was exhibited at the Ohio State 

 Fair, about five years ago, that required an entire year 

 for its crystallization to become complete. We are 

 informed, on the other hand, that upon several occa- 

 sions samples of excellent " sorghum " sugar (as 

 contended by the interested parties) have been 

 exhibited, which were said to have been obtained 

 from the sorghum plant, but were nothing more than 

 second grades of cane-sugar. This evidently had the 

 effect of misleading the public. In the Agricultural 

 Report of 1877, page 235, a description is given of a 

 certain process partly endorsed by our Government. 

 It is said that the juice of any permanent variety of 

 sorghum now known in the country may be rapidly 

 and uniformly crystallized. 



" It is claimed that ten pounds of sugar may be 

 made from one gallon of dense syrup." This repre- 

 sents twice the amount admitted as possible by the 

 growers throughout the country. Has this percentage 

 of sugar by this new process ever been obtained ? We 

 can positively say that it has not, as it would be equal 

 to the very best cane grown in the Southern States. 



The same gentleman claims that he has discov- 

 ered a body possessing the remarkable quality of 

 " isolating the sugars of both kinds in a solution, 

 sucrose and glucose, and protecting them as by an 

 impenetrable shield against the action of the forces by 

 which the other deleterious substances are either 

 neutralized or destroyed." The defecation of the juice 

 is no longer necessary. By this process, carbonic 

 acid need not be used ; the animal black, conse- 

 quently, need be but in very small quantities. In 

 other words, all the costly outlay existing in the 

 cane and beet process are done away with. The 

 sugar has nothing left in its way, and the crystalli- 



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