New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-11-13
into sugar and syrup the same as in the mah"iac'-
ure of butter and cheese

| into sugar and syrup. the same as In the "a"''"~
| ure OF butter and cheese.
METHOD OF CULTIVATION.
Sorghum should be planted about the same ume
as corn in hills forty inches apart each way 90
| that a horse cultivator may be used 10 He'p '"e
| land mellow and free from weeds In appe''"''.e
| II Is like sugar and grows from e's"' "
twelve feet high; the roots are coarse an" s
and penetrate deep into the so--hence II II 'ess IN
jured by drouth than most any ooe' ''' W
crop. The seed is harvested in September Wy 'u',
| ting OF the tops. The leaves are theh s'''ppeu
from the canes before the frost destroys ''e "''.
| for food for cattle Afterward the canes "'e 'u'
ana drawn direct 10 the mandatory. An aN''"se
crop IL fifteen tons TO the OF stripped cane or
twenty tons with the seed and leaves VII. Inv
manufacturers pay the grower 50 a ton ,or II
stripped and 81 80 a ton with the seed ana iea'es
on. The cost of production to the grower does not
exceed $40 an acre
In the valley Of the Mohawk twenty-five TOM
to the acre have been produced. The SEED weishs
sixty pounds to the bushel. and thirty pushe's 10
the acre IL ordinary crop. 1t Is eauai IN Vai"e
to corn for animal food or for the production OF
glucose. The best sugar-bearlng varie'es can De
inatured In from seventy-nve to ninety days / ne
tops containing the seed are about u per cent Vi
the total gross weight the leaves II per cent the
canes "a per cent.
The manufacturer buys the canes stripped, or
with the leaves on as the grower may elect. The
leaves, sweet and nutritious. are valuable TOT Tor
age. The cane from which the juice has been ex-
tracted Is valuable for the manufacture OF paper
of superior quality The processes to which 1t is
subjected in the manufacture or sugar prepare IL
for conversion into paper pulp.
In 1860 6000000 gallons of sorghum syrup were
produced in this country in 1870 lC0OoVp: In 1871
900. and I'm 1892. 300o900 and In addition lSoVO
pounds of sugar DR.. Peter Collier Tor many
years connected with the chemical branch OF the
h,vt
ington and at the present time director OF the
New-York State Agricultural Experiment station
at Geneva, who is unquestionably the highest au-
thority in this country upon the culture OF sor-
ghum and the production of sugar ana syrup from
it, in public address delivered before the Chamber
OF Commerce of the city of Rochester IN Decem-
Der last. said
Sorghum can be successfully grown wherever
corn is raised and the method of cultivation Is
much the same. 1t has been cultivated az cereal
for 1900 years and 80 per cent of that grown to-day
is grown for the seed alone which in the quantity
of acreage yield is fully equal to Indian corn, in
composition H. practically identical with Indian
corn and which can be substituted for every pur-
pose for which com is used To-day &c per cent OF
the cultivated land in the United states Is In corn
If, therefore, it pays TO grow corn Tor the seed
SO 1t will pay to grow sorghum. We nave grown
over 2S0 varieties at the Experimental station IN
Geneva. fully 100 OF which originally came from
Africa Upon the average it Is found much richer
In sugar than The sugar cane of LOUISIANA
AN average of 33l analyses of juices OF several
varieties of sorghum cane, having been made by
.ral different chemists she wed 14.4s per cent
by these same chemists of juices from several va
rietios of Louisiana sugar cane showed 1247 per
cert OF sugar present. thus showing an average Of
POI pounds OF sugar In ton OF the sorsnun cane
and PAS pounds lin a ton OF the sugar cane
RESULTS OF CHEMICAL EXPERIMENTS.
Dr. Wiley. chemist of The United States Depart
ment of Agriculture. writing Of the results obtained
in 1922 at the Government Experimental Station at
Medicine Lodge, Kan, says:
"Our own experimental results at Medicine Lodge
were of the most satisfactory character. We pro-
duced some blocks of in which the average
content of sugar in the juice was over 10 per cent
This of course is somewhat phenomenal, and we
could not hope to equal II in field WORK. believe
however that it is possible to produce a field
crop in that part Of Kansas which shall contain
an average of from !: to 10 per cent OF sugar
and with a purity Of from 70 to 3d. Such a crop
could be most successfully and profitably manu-
Fort Scott Kan d, the total fra s0rg nSc
50 degrees and eoa5c gallons Of moasses. The
sTees Al MEDICINE Lodge Kan the sorghum
cane worked for sugar was 1855 tons from when
50 200 gallons molasses The average polarization OF
the juice was 1886 degrees From the above We see
ton of cane an average OF las pounds of sugar and
fourteen gallons of rnoasses. and at Medicine Lodge
of sugar and eleven gallons of molasses = -,
But these results though encouraging do not
limit possibilities of sorghum, since one OF me
sorghum growers at Medicine Lodge reports his
entire crop Of variety of sorghum as averaging
three Other varieties as averaging 10 per cent, tne
entire CROP of other varieties as averaging
Is per cent and the entire crop Of still another
variety averaging Is per cent OF sugar IN tne
Juice. He had sixty-two acres IN all, the entire
crop from which averaged 1884 per cent OF sugar
in the juice or S5 pounds of sugar TO each ION ol
yielding juice averaging 2l5 per cent OF sugar:
while Still another load averaged 223 per cent o,
sugar q result simply amazing when we cohsidci
that il shows the sorghum to contain FUZZY one
fifth of its weight OF sugar or 400 pounds 10 tne tpn
portance in connection with this subject and tha'
is the regularity Of this crop as coInpa , VIII d
in this connection quote from a coi,espos'i fi
who has had large experience, who writes as io'
"Jn the three years in which this work has
been done 2everal of the varieties have varied
in the per cent of ngar t fnan s yesrF the
cent of sugar has averaged as high az IN me sus
beet in the sugar cane while me Per ee sugar
cane So far. sorghum grown from true seeu ma ma,
been no more variable than sugar cane or the
While in Kansas special attention has been beer,
given 10 the production of sugar from sorghum
dnction sugar and syrup OF the best quality have
been produced in Minnesota. The Hon; Seth zen Men
ney OF Morristown. Mimi who had cui sd tb
last thirty years won the first premium OF ~ l"i
at the Worlds Is Ea a5 At WNs Mne the rs
premium of $40 for the best barrel OF sugar. both
| produced from sorghum Mr.. Kenney also received
| Paris exhibition in 1889 and also at the Minnesoia
State fair in 1881 sS. so and go Sugar and syrnl
| bbition at the Columbian Exposition at Chicaso,
Sugar taken from HIS tanks 90 Of molaSses snow
The production of high grade Of syrup VIII y, hf
the long run be found more, profitable. and ID. De