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large as they now are; that is, of 130 cubic feet capacity. (&) The opening through 

 which the chips are discharged should .be made as nearly as possible of the same area 

 as a bo rizontal cross-section of the coll. (c) The forced feed of the cutters requires 

 a few minor changes in order to prevent choking, (d) The apparatus for delivering 

 the cbips to the cells should be remodeled so as to dispense witb the labor of one man. 



(3) The process of carbonatation for the purification of the juice is the only method 

 which will give a limpid juice with a minimum of waste and a maximum of purity. 



(4) By a proper combination of diffusion and carbonatation the experiments have 

 demonstrated that fully 95 per cent, of the sugar in the cane can be placed on tbe 

 market either as dry sugar or molasses. 



(5) It is highly important that the Department complete the experiments so suc- 

 cessfully inaugurated by making the changes in the machinery mentioned above and 

 by the erection of a complete carbonatation outfit. 



Respectfully, 



H. W. WILEY, Chemist. 



But while so much had been accomplished by the joint efforts of the 

 United States Department of Agriculture and the Ottawa company, 

 the financial results were so disastrous to the company as to leave them 

 utterly unable to further co-operate with the Government in the prose- 

 cution of the work. 



THE FORT SCOTT COMPANY ORGANIZED. 



At this juncture Judge Parkinson saw that he must either submit to 

 defeat or organize a new company to co-operate with the Department 

 of Agriculture, should Congress be wise enough to make another ap- 

 propriation. In this straight he went to Fort Scott and organized the 

 Parkinson Sugar Company, which is now composed as follows : J. D. 

 Hill, president; Eli Kearnes, vice president ; M. Swenson, secretary 

 and chemist; W. Chenault, treasurer; W. L. Parkinson, manager; C. 

 F. Drake, A. W. Walburn, W. W. Pusey, J. W. Converse, and David 

 Richards. 



Taking up the work where all others had failed, this company has 

 taken a full share of the responsibilities and losses, until it has at last 

 seen the Northern sugar industry made a financial success. 



THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MAKES AN APPROPRIATION. 



The report of 1885 showed such favorable results that in 1886 the 

 House made an appropriation of $94,000, to be used in Louisiana, New 

 Jersey, and Kansas. A new battery and complete carbonatation appa- 

 ratus were erected at Fort Scott. About $60,000 of the appropriation 

 was expended here in experiments in diffusion and carbonatation. 



In his report Dr. Wiley arrived at the following conclusions : 



In a general review of the work, the most important point suggested is the abso- 

 lute failure of the experiments to demonstrate tbe commercial practicability of manu- 

 facturing sorghum sugar. Tbe causes of this failure have been pointed out in the 

 preceding pages, and it will only be necessary here to recapitulate them. They were " 



(1) Defective machinery for cutting the canes and for elevating and cleaning the 

 chips and for removing the exhausted chips. 



