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The mean composition of sorghum juices used for manufacturing 

 sugar on a large scale up to 1887 and the means of the two stations at 

 Bio Grande and Fort Scott for 1887 are as follows: 





It will be seen that the cane both at Eio Grande and Fort Scott was 

 slightly better than the average of the recorded analyses up to that 

 time. 1 see no reason to doubt, however, the possibility of producing iii 

 a few years a sorghum-cane, the purity of whose juice will average 

 higher even than that at Rio Grande. 



I am not one of those, however, who claim for sorghum a position 

 above the sugar-cane, either at present or remotely. All such claims 

 are based either purposely on a few selected analyses, or ignorantly on 

 partial evidence, or on no scientific evidence whatever. 



The work which has been done under my supervision has had a 

 double purpose: (1) To determine the true average sugar content of 

 sorghum when grown on a commercial scale; and, (2) to devise the best 

 methods of securing the sugar in merchantable form. 



1 have not hesitated to state the facts as they were disclosed during 

 the progress of the work, nor have I knowingly concealed any result 

 which has had any apparent relation to the problem, whether of a favor- 

 able or unfavorable nature. 



In conclusion, 1 will say that I have written this bulletin to bring into 

 convenient shape for reference all the information which I have been 

 able to collect concerning the sugar industry of this country. 



