103 



In 1884 a little over 100,000 pounds sugar were manufactured and the 

 business was then abandoned as unprofitable. 



The disasters which attended the fortunes of this company, 1883-'84, 

 were not softened by the production of sugar. The young sugar-boiler 

 at first secured a few crystals in his pan. Each day, however, the re- 

 sults were poorer, a and at the end of one week no trace of sugar could 

 be found, and in mortification he left without notice and has not yet 

 been heard from." 1 



OTTAWA, KANS. 



A large glucose factory here was converted into a sorghum-sugar fac. 

 tory. Sugar was made in considerable quantities in 1884 and 1885, and 

 the house was then shut up, the business being attended with financial 

 loss. 



RIO GRANDE, N. J. 



This factory is the most extensive and thoroughly equipped of any 

 sorghum-sugar house ever built in the United States. 



For five successive seasons from 1882 it was conducted with the 

 highest skill. With the aid of a State bounty of $1 per ton for the 

 cane and 1 cent a pound for the sugar, the company was able to hold 

 together financially. With the close of 1886 the State bounty expired 

 and the factory has now been closed and dismantled, since it could only 

 be run at a loss without the bounty. In all nearly 1,500,000 pound* 

 of sugar have been made by this company. 



In speaking of the operations of the large factories tlie committee 

 of the National Academy says : 2 



One signal success, on a large scale, obtained by intelligent attention to tlio results 

 of experimental research and skillful culture, opens the way to a repetition of like 

 results. 



It is from the States of New Jersey and Illinois that wo are able to cite examples 

 of success on so large a scate^nd attended with such a satisfactory result as fairly puts 

 to rest any doubts as to the production of sugar, on a great scale, in a northern climate 

 with a commercial profit. 



How sadly the members of the committee suffered themselves to !><> 

 deceived the financial ruin of the above two ''successes" has attested- 



At the present time, May, 1888, there remains only one sorghum" 

 sugar factory on a large scale in the country, viz, at Fort Scot I, Kans. 

 One is building at Topeka and one at Conway Springs, Kaus. Col. 

 Cunningham, Sugar Lands, Tex., is also preparing to make sorghum 

 sugar in connection with the sugar-cane. 



DISCUSSION OF THE DATA. 



Having thus collected from every available source the results of the 

 analyses of sorghum juices made by different investigators, except those 



1 Department of Agriculture, Div. of Chemistry, Hull. No. r>, p. 1'>.~>. 

 8 Report National Academy of Sciences on Sorghum, pp. 30, 31. 



