79 



Swensou 1 says the average percentage of cane sugar in sorghum 

 grown by him on the Wisconsin farm was 10.5 to 12.5. 



Weber 2 reports the following as the general average of all the cane 

 juices manufactured at Champaign during the year 1883 : 



Specific gravity 1. 059 



Sucrose per cent . . 7. 78 



Glucose do 4.76 



The means of seventy analyses made of Amber canes at Hutchinson, 

 Kans., during the season of 1883, by Prof. M. Swenson, are as follows : 3 



Per cent. 



Total solids 14.2 



Sucrose 9.3 



Glucose 2.8 



The means of thirteen analyses of the cane juices from the large mill 

 at Hutchinson, Kans., give the following numbers: 4 



Per cent. 



Total solids 15.7 



Sucrose 11.1 



Glucose 3. 3 



The means of thirteen analyses of Orange cane at Hutchinson during 

 1883 are as follows : 4 



Per cent. 



Totalsolids 13.1 



Sucrose 8.7 



Glucose 3.5 



Seven analyses of the juices of Link's Hybrid cane, made at same place 

 in 1883, are as follows : 4 



Per cent. 



Totalsolids 13.2 



Sucrose 10.3 



Glucose 2.13 



Means of two analyses of the juices of Honduras cane, made at the 

 same time and place, are as follows : 5 



Per cent. 



Totalsolids 15.2 



Sucrose < 10. 2 



Glucose 3.4 



The means of fifty-six analyses of the juices of sorghum, chiefly Amber, 

 made by Prof. M. A. Scovell, at Sterling, Kans., in 1883, are as follows: 6 



Per cent. 



Sucrose 7.45 



Glucose 3. 6 



Not sugar 3.13 



1 Third Annual Meeting Wisconsin Caiic-Growcrs' Association, February, 1883, 

 p. 16; edited by J. A. Field, Saint Louis, Mo. 



3 Department of Agriculture, Division of Chemistry, Bull. No. 3, p. 62. 

 *0p. cit., p. 64. 



4 Op. cit., p. 65. 

 'Op. cit., p. 66. 



6 Op. cit., pp. 67, 68. 



