36 REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE 
and cloudy weather the crop had not advanced upon an average — 
much beyond the milk stage of the seed, when it was cut up for 
the silo. 
Comparative feeding experiments will be made with the ensil- 
age from this crop and from the crops of early and late cut 
corn. | 
It will be seen that the above crop gave an average per acre of 
27,844 pounds of cane of which 27.4 per cent, upon an average, 1s 
leaves and tops, and 72.6 per cent stripped and topped cane, or 
20,215 pounds, containing of juice which could be readily expressed 
by a hand mill'13,356 pounds, which juice contained 1,967 pounds 
of total sugars equal to at least 2,623 pounds or about 220 gallots 
of syrup. 
- There are at present several farmers in central and western 
counties who have for years been engaged in the growing of sor- 
ehum and the production of syrup therefrom, and, if their state- 
ments may be credited, this industry has proved to be by no 
means unprofitable to them. Certainly the results given above 
would appear to indicate that there might, by means of a 
central factory system established for working up the cane pro- 
duced by a number of farmers, be a new and very profitable 
industry established, at least to the extent of furnishing an 
abundant supply of pure and wholesome syrup for home 
consumption. 
But it will be seen that there were made thirteen analyses of 
the juices from seven varieties of sorghum which compare closely 
with the ten analyses of juices from seven varieties reported last 
year. for comparison the results are given below: 

8 
Number of | Number of 
varieties. analyses. 
" Per cent | Per cent — 
cane sugar | glucose in 
in juice. juice. — 
ee 

From sorghum yielding a mill juice containing only ten per 
cent of cane sugar and 3.41 per cent of glucose, according to 
Bulletin No. 17, pages 9 and 10, Department of Agriculture, there 
was made in an experimental trial upon 219 tons of stripped and 
