4, Cold storage-room, $4,500. 
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“T believe now we can expect field cane to have an average of four- h 
teen per cent of sugar in the juice, and Dr. Wiley says we can now — 
expect 200 pounds of sugar from a ton of such cane.” 3 
A recent letter from a veteran sorghum grower and manufacturer 
of Minnesota, of thirty-five years’ experience, says that last season» 
which was for growing sorghum the worst but one in thirty-five 
years, he paid two dollars a ton for the unstripped cane (an 
excellent price to the farmer growing it) and sold his syrup at 
forty cents a gallon and his sugar at 4.1 cents, netting each day of 
ten hours fifty-one dollars and forty cents. 
_ The State Inspector of Kansas-made sugar, officially reports as 
follows concerning the Fort Scott Sorghum Sugar Factory : 
“The Fort Scott Company contracted for 1,000 acres of cane, all of 
which was delivered. The crop was backward and of inferior quality 
compared with former years, but notwithstanding the fact that over 
1,000 tons less of cane were worked for sugar than last year (1890) 
the amount of ‘sugar manufactured exceeded last year’s (1890) crop 
by 101,439 pounds. The total value of the year’s product was 
$35,172. The total cost of production was $23,803.22, leaving a profit 
of $11,368.78.” The inspector continues as follows: “The results 
obtained at Fort Scott under unfavorable circumstances demonstrate 
that the business can now be successfully conducted when the required 
conditions are fully complied with. Because there has been a failure — 
to realize a profit at other places indicates that there has been bad 
management.” 
Without making any recommendation we would add that for 
four successive years we have grown at the Experiment Station 
several varieties of sorghum which averaged a content of sugar 
equal to the average of sugar cane in Louisiana. . 
The immediate and pressing needs of the Station to enable 
the carrying forward of the work which is demanded are as 
follows: 
1. The completion and equipment of the new laboratory, ao 
estimated at $6,000. 
9. The building of at least four houses for the accommodation 
of married members of the staff, $12,000. 
8. Greenhouse and forcing houses in order to carry on work “ 
during winter in horticultural investigation, $8,000. 
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