The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-01-01
sugar from sorghum and Corn.

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Prof. F. {. Stewart, of Pennsylva
mia, who is probably better acquainted
with the process of manufacturing SUI
gar from sorghum than any one elst
IN this country, presented report to
the recent Sugar Convention in St.
Louis, from which report we extract
The following very interesting por-
tions.
Two years ago published the state
ment that / had discovered the means
of crystallizing the sugar Of the juice
of Chinese cane with as much facility
and certainty as it could be obtained
from the maple of our woods or the
south. The fact is now ahundantsy
confirmed, although the experience of
% years with the old process, and the
popular incredibly resulting there
from, was against it. l also found
that the juice Of every variety Of sor-
ghum grown IN Pennsylvania yielded
its sugar by this mode of treatment. /
had not at that time heard of Gambler
cane" One year afterward | includ.
ed amber cane in the experiments, and
with the same results as to the crys-
utilization. 1t is impossible here for
me TO state the grounds fully upon
which the opinion is based, but | do
desire here to put on record the dec
laration that the Chinese cane-the
old Asiatic variety--is the best sugar
plant grown in this country, unless
some iuxuriant growing variety of
maize is its competitor. The Chinese
cane is the best because it will mature
to sugar wherever corn will ripen, and
abundance of its sugar, and the small
quantity of drainage produced. From
the stand point of one who uses the
new process the amber cane is valua-
bic, simply as an early variety, but its
Yield is One-third less than the Chs
nese cane. No difficulty need he ex-
perienced 10 procuring the seed of the !
latter, as it is yet grown 10 all parts |
VI tic OHlOcu OtdAcc.
As 10 Indian corn the following |
brief statement derived from experi> |
ments continued on my own ground !
the past season must suffice. The |
stems of sweet corn, (StowelI's ever
green) growing two or three in a hill, |
The hills q feet apart and the rows
81 feet apart, yielded after all the
green ears had been removed for .ry-
ng or cooking, half gallon of dense
'yrup to the square rod of ground,
giving 4 to 5 pounds of sugar (6rst
ind second crystallizationy, or at the
ate Of 600 to 800 pounds of sugar to
he acre.
On the other hand, ordinary field
orn sown in drills 81 feet apart, the
TENS standing together as they will
row to attain to a height of z or s
eet when in flower, and no attention
'aid 20 utilization of their ears, except
UGH rs may casually nave been well
eveloped, produces when cut at the
roper season and worked up without
clay, from a gallon to gallon and a
ut of syrup per square yard, or
rom 10 TO 10 pounds of sugar, or from
900 to 2,40e mounds OF sugar per
ere. The corn must he sown so close
: in the row as to prevent the full de,
Of the ear and at the same
me not so densely as to prevent: tho
ems from attaining a medium size to
erlize the most sugar from an acre of
)rli. IL
Ihave found the means of produce
e preparation in condensed form
hich can be sent in quantities large
: small, to all portions of the coun-
Y at a comparatively trifiing cost,
ON which the solution is readily pre-
lced. One pound of this prepare
On is equal to two gallons Of solution
of average strength.
The cost of producing the sugar
very expense and item of labor in.
uded), is reduced to q cents per
'und. The cost of the chemicals
including tine royalty) is about / ola
mt per pound on the sugar. From
hinese cane it may be produced by
is process for even less. Otherwise
is cane never crystallizes at all.
Last year the experiences of Prof.
,lIier, chemist of the department of
ricnlture at Washington; in the use
the process both upon corn and
rgum, were conclusive as to tho GER
nty of the equalization. He en-
atically said, as the result of more
an forty experiments:
The point which these experiments
We fully settled is, that there exists
difficulty in making from either
I'm or sorghum first rate quality of
gar, which will compare favorably
tn the best produce from sugar-cane
1wn in tie most favorable localities.
no case, either with corn or sorg-
m did | fail TO obtain satisfactory
ults in the way of crystallization.
e sugars obtained were in most
isfactory condition in every respect,
nparing most favorabIy with the
It raw sugar of the market, as will
at once seen by reference tc their
y high polarization: Maize sugar,
pearl-millet sugar, 92.7
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