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(3) That this was not due to any extraordinary content of sugar in 

 the cane, but, on the contrary, the cane was much injured by severe 

 drought and chinch-bugs. 



(4) That the value of the sugar and molasses obtained this year per 

 ton of sorghum cane will compare favorably with that of the highest 

 yields obtained in Louisiana from sugar-cane, and, taking into consid- 

 eration the much greater cost of the sugar-cane, and that it has no 

 equivalent to the 2 bushels of seed yielded per ton of sorghum cane, 

 also our much cheaper fuel, I say without hesitancy that sugar can 

 be produced fully as cheaply in Kansas as in Louisiana. 



M. SWENSON. 



SUMMARY OF CHEMICAL WORK DONE AT FORT SCOTT, 1887. 

 [Abstract of report of C. A. Crampton.] 



Analyses were begun on the 3d of September, but a full chemical control of the 

 work was not established until the 8th. 



Samples of the fresh chips, diffusion juices, and exhausted chips were taken in the 

 usual way, great care being taken to have them represent as accurately as possible 

 the mean properties of the several substances mentioned. 



TABLE 1. Analyses of juices of fresh chips. 



Number of analyses 55 



Sucrose : Per cent 



Mean 9.54 



Maximum 11.51 



Minimum 6.20 



Glucose : 



Mean 3.40 



Maximum 6. 49 



Minimum . 1. 39 



Total solids (spindle) : 



Mean 1C. 14 



Maximum 17. 18 



Minimum 13.09 



TABLE 2. Diffusion juices. 



Number ot analyses 51 



Sucrose : Per cent. 



Mean . 68 



Maximum 8.79 



Minimum 5.05 



Glucose : 



Mean 2.26 



Maximum 3. 07 



Minimum .,. 1.75 



Total solids (spindle) : 



Mean ... 11.08 



Maximum 13.10 



Minimum.. 8.64 



