New-York tribune., 1885-03-06
SOME USES OF SORGHUM.
v.ra,.BIE Az CORN AND SWEET AS SUGAR.

SOME USES OF SORGHUM.
VALUABLE Az CORN AND SWEET AS SUGAR
rHs sAsAsss FROM 1T BETTER TEAM ESsILAGE-
PULP FOR MAKING PAPER.
An emphatic and unanimous vote elected Cpes'eff ef
A. Arthur an honorary member OF tho CssmSSer v ~
commerce Yesterday. The resolution offered ny
Cornelius N. Bliss was IN part a. foliows' -
Our distinguished fellow-citisen: Chester A. hfahur'
Pss Mr. xrsar Sa. his
course by the ability OF MS M srtss lie
Sas always been ready listen with intelligent S ap
probation to tue 4a ~ commerciai
and iaanoai affairs have been especially SOUND.
Charles s. Smith requested that q committee De
appointed to investigate the charges that sns SS
,erce Of this city is endangered by exeessNSS
elevator rates for handling grain at New.iork anu
Buffalo, Mr. Thurber offered as q substitute tnas t
the Chamber believed that tss charges lss and
should be equitably reduced after full
of the subject by the Legislature. The substitute
"iS DR. Peter Collier. who has had charge OF the
Chemical Division of the Department OF Agricuiture
at Washington delivered an address upon tne vus %
of sorghum as farming and commerci"i p'ou"0' Va
history Of sorghum with US only dates rSss GsSS 20
s lsSs yDSm %a% sesa % DE-
Consul at Shanghai China had seHf 70 ss %rsy an
sixteen varieties Of sorghum seed To these last the
the Chinese sugar Cane And yet this merits
US rproducng plant appear nave peea reoVs IS
mainly valuable for forage or as source OF an interior on
quality of syrup 1t was great error m n o;rn IN
country that the East ce-eating people;
Fully OF them sabsist mainly %Don Csea as
owing to gexcessive dongth no others eouo "
ees IN the WS % Pna pnd for the
poses and 1t entirely satisfied the wants Oh Ic poopo
That it had practically excluded maize have person
sIy obtained within few months from Calcutta eleven
varieties OF sorghum seed twenty varieties from tno
SrsU sss rSa + Foo cw s
addition eight varieties from Northern Shna Sa,e1
south Africa in all seventy distinct varieties Of
sorghumnot of these appearing 70 oe DC s ntea
States; and is be remembered that none OF THESE
varieties has been cultivated IN either od o nesS s"c
forage as might be secured from the stalks and blades
eass the seed of sorghum has furnished greater
Abundance both and beast than have wheat ana
II il admitted that the demands upon climate and soil
of the sorghum also the details OF cuiuvation. aro
matter OF moment that the sorghum. provided only
secures good In the early portion OF the season.
ca,able OF yithstaiding only, but even nOurisinR
during drought which would proval fatai 10 naze: ~ %
The ceuc composition OF sorghum seea ~ 70 NJ ~
practically identical with maize; ana Tor the purI VI
iod or iattenng for the production OF acoho GLUCOSE
there is no reason tor any difference in their commercial
vaue Grown Indian corn Is grown ,or sno sooS S
SSnS . orsnSred to believe that upon plantation prop
erly located with regard the mill and with economy 10
o 1"e snS nsea hs delivery cane at mill
as one Of largest sorghum planters has assured me
II will be seen from tables which present that tne
average amount of available sugar present In the Juice
actually expressed from crop actually grown eaIaga
sugar actually present in the on the suggestion OF
90 per sent Of aee Mas are am asonhng results and
since they have beenipubshed there have been IN ces
iscreiit npon them despite fact that committee
of the National Academy OF Sciences tonr hlghest
methods by which these results had been obtained as
being among the best known to science" The NEW,
in $50 remarks: aThe above certainly amazing re-
Suits indicating that the economical OF our
sugar supply something which can be c0nndenly eA
pcctod In the fnure and. is further said these
fesults confirm in striking manner the an an
nounced by Dr. Collier. aud efectuay dispose OF @ the
persistent assertions IN certain quarters tha' hoooay
ever got such results as Dr. Collier" o,,r ,orso
The hag ssse from sorghum contains not only Iarge
amount Of sugar. but other valuable food constituents
and from the IN, m LIZ IN ns sSr eanr cot
appears from averages Of aarge number OF ana y &
s S % o q
are engaged In ~ the
value for this purpose Of the bagase OF the sorga ea
mills present used as fuel or for the n 5 neI &
was afterward submitted TO the ordinary process
for the G Rep 70 sa
paper manufacturers, was pronounced 70 DC oI
M came a would Weld at least ninety pounds of such
pulp so that with of ten tons TO the acre ere
Sbere might be amount OF pulp worth S4O oV.
IT 10 be con- dcred each step In the process 10
which the subjected increases Its value ior the
Auction pulp there Is nothing IN thc treat
inent which forbids It's economical employment upon
hundreds OF tons exhausted bagasse there reason 70
believe that ultimately this industry may he adden 10
the production sugar from sorghum cane thus utlz
ing waste product and increasing the pronts IRON tne
crop think therefore that It may fairly be eslmea
for sorghum from the facts which have been presented
that We have in it crop fully tie equal OF In nan corn
fhs sugar cane louisiana and besides furnishing IL
fs bagasse material for the slo twice as valuable IA
common ensilage for food, which bagasse may by
dusio yield least increase IN sugar an9
syIup OF fifty cent that obtained by the mn
and then furnish the manufacturer OF paper exceen
material for pulp.