1 9 8 PLANT AND ORGANIC CHEMISTRY 
Dutiable. Amount. Value. 
Molasses.. 39,018,637 gallons $5,587,884.00 
Sugar.2,498,258,590 pounds 71,606,918.00 
Sugar candy, etc. 23,333.00 
Total. $77,218,135.00 
Value of all imported sugars and molasses... $86,392,747.00 
The value of all imported sugars and molasses, 
for the year ending June 30, 1885. 76,738,719.00 
For the year ending June 30, 1884. 103,884,275.00 
The total value 1 of domestic sugars and molas¬ 
ses amounted to. 43,037,409.03 
The amount of money sent out of the country 
during the last year to meet the demands of 
sugar consumption was. 135,000,000.00 2 
The above figures show the amount of sugar and molasses 
consumed in the United States annually. If we are to obtain 
all of these products from our own lands, it is a reasonable 
question to ask, how is this to be accomplished ? 
Former analyses show that the yield of sugar from Louisiana 
cane is less than from cane grown in the tropics. The future 
prosperity of Louisiana growers need not suffer from this 
poorer juice. The recent experiments at Fort Scott 3 demon¬ 
strated that a given weight of cane, without notably increasing 
the cost of manufacture, yielded thirty per cent, more sugar 
than had ever been made before. The Southern sugar in¬ 
dustry will thrive with the encouragement of a greater sugar 
yield, and by the introduction of more scientific methods of 
growing and manufacture. 
Of late years the manufacture of sugar from Sorghum sac- 
charalum has attracted attention. So far, as a business project, 
it has proved a financial failure. From the recent chemical 
reports of the Agricultural Bureau, under proper conditions 
of cultivation, this cereal promises to become a profitable 
source of sugar supply. 
I give a few of the chemical results of the late Fort Scott 
1 Bui. No. 5, Chem. Div. Dept, of Agr., pp. 7, 8. 
2 From Bui. No. 2, Chem. Soc. of Washington, p. 16. 
3 Bui. No. 14, Chem. Div. Dept, of Agr., 1886. H. W. Wiley, Chemist. 
