, in a pamphlet of over 60 pages, entitled a "_Study of
the Various Sources of Sugar_."
From this publication it appears that the main source of sugar supply
must still be _sucrose_, cane sugar, even in spite of the best efforts
of the general government and of the State agricultural organizations
to introduce sugar-bearing plants that will thrive in the temperate
and colder latitudes of this country. With the single exception of the
sugar beet, he seems to disparage all attempts to produce practical
sugar from hardy plants, or those that will mature in the region of
frosts in winter. Even sorghum, that has for twenty years held a place
in the hopes of the northern farmer, has declined so that the alleged
production of half a million pounds in 1866 had became barely a
twelfth of a million pounds in 1877.
In his remarks on the synopsis of one hundred and eleven experiments,
made at Washington, he says: "As may be noticed, thirty-five of them
(111) would yield zero. If we take the average of the hundred and
eleven experiments, we find as a yield 4.5 per cent., which result
cannot possibly be practically accepted. In other words, our
government, notwithstanding the favorable conditions under which they
were made, prove that the sorghum utilization is fallacy in every
sense of the word.
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