EXPERIMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SUGAR 

 FROM SORGHUM. 



The results of tne experiments made at Ottawa last year gave en- 

 couragement to the friends of the sorghum sugar industry, and led to 

 the undertaking of a new series of experiments at Fort Scott. 



The Department of Agriculture entered into the following agreement 

 with the Parkinson Sugar Company at Fort Scott : 



WASHINGTON, D. C-, August 7, 1886. 



AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE AND THE PARKINSON 

 SUGAR COMPANY OF FORT SCOTT, KANS. 



The Commissioner of Agriculture agrees to erect at the works of the Parkinson 

 Sugar Company of Fort Scott, Kaus., one diffusion battery with all its appliances; 

 three cane-cutters, one of which shall have a horizontal cutting disk, with appliances 

 for feeding the cane to the same, and elevators for delivering the chips to the cells. 



He further agrees to erect one carbonatation apparatus, to consist of a lime-kiln, 

 carbonic-acid pump, four carbonatatiou tanks, and four filter-presses, with all their 

 connections; also one sulphur apparatus, consisting of two sulphur furnaces, three 

 saturation-tanks, three filter-presses, one air-pump, and all necessary connections. 



He further agrees to prepare the whole of the above-mentioned machinery for prac- 

 tical work, and to provide all neceesary labor and material for a thorough experi- 

 mental trial of the same, and when this trial is finished to allow the Parkinson Sugar 

 Company the free use of the apparatus for the rest of the manufacturing season of 

 1 --''. without any charge for rental to the Parkinson Company aforesaid. 



It is expressly agreed and understood that all machinery furnished by the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, and all fixtures and appliances therewith connected, shall remain 

 the property of the Department, and the Commissioner reserves the right to make 

 such disposition of all of it after the end of the present manufacturing season as may 

 seem to him best suited to pr-nuote the public interest. 



The Parkinson Sugar Company agree to furnish suitable buildings in which to 

 ereci this machinery, to supply steam for driving it and for use in the calorisators of 

 the battery, and to allow the Commissioner of Agriculture as much time as he may 

 <! MIC,, not exceeding ten days from the commencement of the manufacturing season. 

 for the purpose of making the experimental trials before mentioned; provided that 

 during t hcse experimental trials the Commissioner of Agriculture shall pay for all coal 

 t onsuinetl for supplying the steam mentioned above, and for all limestone, coke, sul- 

 phur, filtering-cloths, and other materials used in the experiments. 



The said company also agree to furnish a suitable room for the chemical laboratory 

 to he erected l>y the Department and used by the Department chemists during the 

 continuance of the manufacturing season. 



It is fint her agreed on the part of the said Parkinson Company that during the 

 period of the experiments mentioned the accredited representative of the Department 

 at Fort Scott, namely, the chemist of the Department, or such other person as the 



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