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irill make one hundred pounds of sugar, and six gallons of 

 syrup, according to the testimony of experts. If this be so, 

 the profits of sugar making »re enormous, as any one can 

 see by a small calculation. The world has never yet had a 

 supply equal to the demand, hence its high price. But if 

 this business is pursued to its full capacity, the supply will 

 stimulate a greater consumption, as any family man knows. 

 In short, there is no danger of glutting the market. It 

 may drive beets out of the trade, but it will always, let the 

 supply be as great as it may, command a remunerative price. 

 The people of the United States every year send out one 

 hundred millions of dollars to buy foreign sweets. The 

 effect of keeping this immense sum at home, and distril)ut- 

 it among the farmers, will be felt materially. This economic 

 view alone is a great inducement to this department to stim- 

 ulate the production of sugar. 



Nor is the production of sugar and syrup confined to 

 sorghum. Large quantities have been and are being made 

 from Indian corn stalks. This department would not 

 recommend the erection of machines for that purpose, but 

 where they exist, and cane is stripped of its corn for roabt- 

 ing ears in market gardens, the stalks could be utilized in 

 this manner rather than left to dry up. It does not make 

 so much syrup or sugar as sorghum, but it is as good. 



Capt. Blakeley has submitted specimens of sugar and 

 ayrup to the Merchants' Exchange of Minneapolis, and they 

 speak of it in the highest terms as being equal in every 

 respect to the sugar and syrup of commerce. It was then 

 submitted to the polariscope, and it showed the presence of 

 ninety-eight per cent, of sucrose, or true sugar. 



From repeated experiments made by the Minnesota re- 

 finery, and by the Commissioner of Agriculture at Washing- 

 ton, it costs about two cents to make a pound of sugar. 

 Take the price of ten to twelve cents, its present value, and 

 the profit is apparent. 



Not only does this new process add sugar to the country. 



