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Paired. The water can then be reduced by evaporation, to 

 the desired consistency of molasses. 



In the manufacture of the Southern cane sugar, lime 

 water, (white wash) is used to clarify it. At first this was 

 •used in sorghum, but it was soon found that it blackened 

 the syrup so much that no after treatment would restore it» 

 •clear color. Besides, it gave it a very disagreeable alkalinit 

 taste. Afterwards the white of eggs was used, which didi 

 ■very well, but further manufacture brought out the discov- 

 ■ery that it contained so much gum it would coagulate and 

 clarify itself better without the addition of anything with it. 

 Skimming easily removes all impuritie that arises upon th« 

 surface. 



The amount of syrup procured from an acre of ground in 

 as various as are the methods of cultivation and characters 

 -of the soil. From forty to two hundred gallons may b« 

 •considered the range, and when it is considered that a culti- 

 vator can take his choice between the two quantities, it 

 may seem that there is cause for emulation. 



But it is rather as a feirage crop that this pladt properly 

 belongs in this treatise. Its uses are almost as various as 

 Indian corn itself. As has been already stated, it is greedi- 

 ly eaten in all stages by stock of every kind. The seeds are 

 abundant, and one acre of good corn will make from forty 

 to sixty bushels of seed. These can be cut from the corn 

 and stored for use, taking care to spread the heads until they 

 •dry, when they make good food for cattle, horses, sheep, 

 hogs and poultry. When ground into flour they make good 

 bread. Both the seeds and the expressed juice have been 

 •extensively used in distillation, large quantities of alcohol 

 and sorghum brandy being annually made from them. Du- 

 ring the war it formed almost the only resource of the South 

 for whisky, all grains being in too much demand for dia^ 

 tillers to use them. 



But probably it possesses more gdod qualities as a green soil- 

 ing plant than any other One. Let it be so^yn either broadcast 



