, 1859-11-18
Sorghum Itefuv.
FFrotn ffr Prairie F.ry,,,r

The Goshen, (1nd.,) 1Times says: Elias Hess
Is grinding out the sorghum juice at the rate Of
1,500 gallons per day. There will be 4 lurse
amount Of the syrup manufactured in tie
county Sext year every farmer should grow
his own sweetening.
The Peoria Transcript is Informed by Dr., T,
j. Moore, Of that county, that the prsbable
amount Of sorghum syrup that will be manu.
factured this fail BY the farmers, within circle
Of three miles around him, is one hundred Tar
rels. \ party Of individuals hare purchased a
fine rolling mill for crushing the cane, driven
BY horsepower; they hare also one Of Cooks
patent cvApo1utors capable OF turning OF fifty
gallons Of syrup per day. The cane Is crushed
and the juice expressed for those who wish to
make their own syrup, at two cents per gallon ::
or the parties take the cane ut the mill and re-.
turn it in syrup at eighteen cents per gallan
The mill is now turning out fifty gallons per
day Four horses arc employed in crushing,
eight cents per bushel are daily CONSUMED IN
the evaporation. The syrup sells readily nj
fifty cccts per gallon, being preferred to the
ba. golden syrup. The Doctor who has been
engaged i'll the cultivation Of sorghum for
several years, estimates an acre Of the produce
Of the cane, when the juice is well expressed
from the same, at $50 gallons Of syrup, 1t will
be seen that this, nfter paving is cents per eai.
lon for crushing and making into syrup, Will
yield the farmer SO ior. bis labor ia raising,
stripping and taking the cane to the mill. viii
wheat or corn pay rs Well?
"The cost Of the sorghum mill and power was
$3.50; Of the evaporator S7o.'
The Davenport {Iowa) Gd=stte gives the fol-
lowing, as the process by which sorghum is
manufactured IN Henry County, in this State ::
The stalks Of corn are stripped Of their leayes
and then passed between two cylinders, which
are made TO rcrolvc By horsepower, very nucI,
IN the came way TINT we have alt seen apples
crushed q. cider mill. This expresses the
juice, which runs OF in light green colored
stream as thick US ones finger, through aleaden
tube TO reservoir. Thence the liquor is trans
surface Of about forty square feet, under which
there is fire. The boiling is continued until
iye-slxths haye been passed of, and the re-.
ruainder is sorghum molasses Of spperr aus1i.
y. About twenty-five gallons are made at
once, md four boilings can be accomplished in
day. Two or three hands, with the services
OF single horse, can thus make one hundred
gallons per day !; and the production will be
worth half as many hard dollars in the market,
With large crop Of cane, machinery upon a
more extended scale, and the assistance of
steam, the amount that could be turned out
would be enormous.
The gentleman whose works our friend vis-
tied, Mr.. AcNhinney, Of bennington, informed
him that the area of country from which he de-
rived material to conduct the above operation
was not more than four miles in diu1neter, and
yet, during the season, be will probably manu-
faeturc altogether two thousand gallons"
The Illinois Fa,nsr says: "Slr. Goltra, at his
sugar mill near Lincoln, is turning of forty
gallons Of excellent syrup per day. lie intends
The Freeport Jouraak says that there is d
farmer in that county who will have one hun
dred barrels Of sorgho syrup to sell this season.
4 good and profitable crop.