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small scale. An acre of good sorghum delivered at the factory will pay 

 for a barrel of nice nearly- white sugar. The farmer who is not so for 

 turiately situated will probably try to induce some company to erect a 

 factory near him, or will join with his neighbors in forming a company 

 for the purpose of building a factory as soon as the skilled labor neces- 

 sary for its operation can be secured, thereby providing not only his 

 own sugar from his own soil, but at the same time a sure and steady 

 market for the most certain and profitable crop he can raise. 



SUGAR REFINERIES. 



The sugar produced by the processes herein described is light, but 

 not white, in color. Its sweetening power is not surpassed by any raw 

 sugar, and its taste is very agreeable. The demand of the age is, how- 

 ever, for the best possible goods, and sorghum sugar must be refined to 

 the purest whiteness, and made into the various conditions demanded 

 by the market. 



To do this requires the work of the sugar refiuery. The largest of 

 the central factories soon to be erected will doubtless be provided with 

 refining facilities, and when located at convenient shipping centers will 

 be developed into large refineries as rapidly as the raw sugar can be 

 obtained to give them work. 



CONCLUSION. 



There seems to be no doubt but that there is here developed an in- 

 dustry of vast importance to our State and nation. For the year end- 

 ing June 30, 1886, there was consumed in the United States foreign 

 grown and manufactured sugar amounting to 2,689,881,765 pounds.* 

 If two thousand new sugar factories were at once erected, and each 

 should produce an annual product of one and a quarter million pounds 

 of sugar, they would not supply the place of the sugars now imported. 



The annual consumption of sugar per capita in the United States is 

 about 56 pounds. The population of Kansas may be taken as 1,500,000. 

 These people consume each year 56 x 1,500,000 = 84,000,000 pounds of 

 sugar. It will be safe to say that the annual average product of the 

 factories will not exceed 1,500,000 pounds, so that fifty-six factories will 

 be required to supply the sugar consumed by the present population of 

 Kansas, and for which they pay over $5,000,000 annually. 



Processes whereby sugar can be made at a profit from sorghum have 

 been worked out. These are far from perfect, but present develop- 

 ments give promise of others in the near future, and will enable us to 

 produce our own sugar on our soil, with the labor of our people. Those 

 who invest in the new industry will be cautious about experimenting 

 with unknown conditions. Kansas is therefore likely to lead in the 

 development, and become the first Northern sugar State. 



"Address of Dr. H. W. Wiley before the Chemical Society, December 9, 1886. 



