Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1889 — SORGHUM EXPERIMENTS. [ARTICLE]

SORGHUM EXPERIMENTS.

The Manufacture of Sugar on a Small Scale Not Profitable. H. W. Wiley, chemist of the agricultural department at Washington, D. C., has completed his record of experiments in the manufactnre of sugar from sorghum, conducted last year at Rio Grande, N. J.; Kinner, La., and Conway Springs, Douglas, and Sterling, Kan. Prof. Wiley says the experiments show that the manufacture of sugar on a small scale cannot be made commercially successful. He concludes that Southern and Western Kansas possess the best soil and climate for sorghum raising, so far as is now known. Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee and North Carolina probably present equally favorable conditions, but this yet awaits demonstration. The Indian Territory is destinedto be the center of the industry. The report says that an average of 194 pounds of sugar can be made from a ton of sugar-cane under the diffusion process.