NORTHERN SUGAR INDUSTRY. 



tare of the plant there will always be a large production of molasses 

 even if the sucrose be entirely separated. 



The distillery and sugar factory will naturally fall together when the 

 industry grows to a sufficient magnitude, as they have already done in 

 Europe.* 



I am led to believe, from a careful study of the preceding investiga- 

 tions, that the northern sugar industry is yet far from being established 

 on a basis of economic success. Of the two chief sources of northern 

 sugar the beet appears to have the advantage over the sorghum plant, 

 and I shall not be surprised to find its successful culture inaugurated 

 in localities suitable to its growth before all the conditions upon which 

 profitable sorghum-sugar growing depends shall have been established. 

 It is not to be inferred that any partiality has been shown sorghum in 

 the investigations which I now transmit to you, because nearly the 

 whole of the matter is derived from researches on the sorghum plant. 

 This has arisen because the division of which I have charge was espe- 

 ciallj^ engaged in the line of research, and from the fact that the con- 

 ditions which afford success to beet culture and sugar manufacture 

 have already been well established by European investigations, while 

 many of the chief problems connected with sorghum culture are still 

 almost untouched. 



* Since the alcoliol made from molasses is scarcely suitable for a beverage, but is fit 

 only for use in the arts, it would prove a great encouragement to the sorghum and 

 sugar beat industries to allow its distillation free of tax. 



