TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Letter of transmittal 5 



Use of alcohol in the manufacture of sugar from sorghum 7 



Abstract of method used in experimental work 10 



Disposition of the press cakes 11 



Changes in the revenue laws necessary to the practical working of the 



process 12 



Machinery and methods 12 



The vacuum still 16 



Difficulties encountered 18 



Plan of experiments (with analyses of juice and chips, and rdsuin6s of 



yields) 20 



Remarks on the yield 26 



General remarks on the sugar-house work 40 



Experiments in the treatment of molasses 42 



Molasses from factory of Medicine Lodge Sugar Company 42 



Molasses from Parkinson Sugar Works, Fort Scott 43 



Remarks on the yield of sugar from molasses treated by the alcohol process . 43 



Notes on daily working of experimental factory 44 



Culture work with sorghum 46 



At Sterling 46 



At Manhattan 50 



At Patterson, La 50 



At Medicine Lodge 51 



Data relating to cane grown on experimental farm 56 



Cultivation 56 



Yield and quality 56 



Data obtained for each variety 57 



Cultural work at Calumet (Patterson, La.) 64 



Experiments of 1891 65 



Comparison of varieties first and second planting 72 



Average sample results 74 



Size of sorghum starch granules 77 



Cultural work at Sterling 78 



Early Amber 87 



McLean's variety 87 



Colman's Cane 88 



Collier's variety 89 



Folger*8 variety 89 



Planter's Fri end 90 



Variety No. 112 91 



Variety No. 161 91 



Early Orange -. 92 



Golden Orange 92 



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