120 



summary* 



Authority. 



Yield 

 per aero. 



Tons. 



Weber and Sc-o^ell 7.: 



Henry and SweiiHou 15. 17 



11.77 



Henry 7.15 



10.45 

 7.24 

 6.81 



Harvey 2. 50 



Weber and Scovell . .. 9. 33 



Honry and Swcnson / 810 



Maltby '>. f>0 



Drummond Bros 9. 17 



Decker i G.OO 



Frazier 6.00 



Talcott 9. CO 



Belcher and Schwartz 3.00 



Bo/arth. ,..,. 8.10 



Wiley 5.8:J 



Hughes and Cook 6.00 



6.00 

 6.00 

 6.00 

 6.00 



Cook 4.87 



8.45 

 U.84 

 14.40 

 10 80 

 12.48 

 5.22 



General average per acre 7.97 



We may, therefore, place tbe average crop of topped and stripped 

 cane in round numbers at 8 tons per acre. 



Practical farmers, chemists, and manufacturers have long recognized 

 the imperative necessity of producing a better raw material for sorghum 

 sugar making, but many of those who have gone into the business have 

 not been impressed with such a necessity. 



In many of our newspapers, in some official documents, and in the 

 report of the Academy of Sciences, which has already been quoted, 

 sorghum has been represented as the equal of Louisana sugar-cane, and 

 therefore the great inferiority of it to that sugar plant has been first 

 revealed by the crash of financial failure. 



Among the methods which have been tried for increasing the sucrose 

 in sorghum I will cite the 



EFFECT OF REMOVAL OF THE SEED HEADS. 



The question of the formation of sucrose in the sorghum cane has 

 already been discussed. 



Formerly, when it was considered that the starch was derived from 

 the sucrose, it was supposed a priori that the removal of the panicle, 

 thus preventing the formation of starch, would tend to increase the per- 

 centage of sucrose in the juice. 



It is stated in Hyde's book l that 



|r rhc Chiucsc Sugar-Ccinc, Hyde, pp. 23,24. 



