
New Yore Acricurturat Experiment Station. 1 yar 
The average weight of these stalks after the ears had been 
removed was 21.2 ounces, and after the tops and blades had been 
removed 13.6 ounces. Allowing the corn to be planted in hills 
four feet by four and four stalks in a hill, the weight of topped 
and stripped stalks per acre would be 9,257 pounds. 
For purposes of comparison, the following results are given as 
the average for four years from. the juices of sugar cane grown 
in Louisiana. Sugar, 10.67 per cent; glucose, 1.73 per cent. 
It will be seen, therefore, that for the production of syrup, 
which would take both sugars, the cornstalk juice contained 11.4 
* per cent, or nearly 92 per cent of that present in the sugar- 
cane juice, and, since many hundreds of acres of corn are being 
grown for canning purposes, it seems to be quite worth while to 
attempt the manufacture of syrup from the stalks, especially 
since the bagasse left after having expressed all the juice which 
could be secured by a mill, would be excellent material for use in 
the silo, in this way utilizing every portion of this crop. | 
Sugar in Sorghum. 
In connection with the subject of the possible sources of a home 
supply of sugar and syrups, for which New York State annually 
expends an aggregate of $20,000,000, the following table present- 
ing the results which have been secured during the past five 
years with several varieties of sorghum, will be of interest. It 
will be seen that there has been remarkable uniformity in the 
results, although during each year a different location was chosen 
upon which to grow the different varieties under investigation. 
Sorcuums GRown AT GENEVA EXPERIMENT StTaTION. 

Per cent Per cent 
YEAR. "Varieties. | “analyses, | SucTose In | glucose tm 
7 10 LTA 1.50 
fi 13 12.00 1.56 
7 36 | bh Ua Bam iama das EU 
14 44. EL BO} Withee ies a 
13 64 1s GLY Sa Aaa ig 
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