Sugar From Sorghum

Coinniissiom rColman hasjuat rcturlicd from au MBdal visit to Fort Scott, Kan., whore the Department oí Agricultura is conducting cxperiinemts in making aupar from sorghum by the dift'usion procesp, and expresaos himsclt' as being dellghted with the resulta abtained nlready. He says the experiments cousi9t in the trial of a new procesa of making sugar in tliii country, which dispooses enlkely wiili with the coetly and pondcrous milis, and Bteam encinos, etc., and uses u far Bimplur and lesa expensive method or extrnctiug the juico, by which all the sacchtiriiin matter is obtiiineil, while by the formcr methods from ÜO to 40 per cent. on the average of the juico, even wilh the soiitliorii sugar cane, is kft in tlie oaut afler paising throurh the mili, and with sorghum a still larger quantity becniise of gieater dllllculty In extracting. The new procesa lscalled the dllluslon or satiiration procesa. The cauc is ent luto chips and passed luto a bnttery of 12cells, cacli holding a ton of chips. Hot water isthrn upplicd, wliich rapidly exlmusts the mecharme matter, and so ÜiOrOCfglily that there is searcely a trace ol it lcfl. The Bella are eutirely practical, bclng apeedlly ulied, maiiipulated, uil einpticd, onc man attendinjr to the entire operation. The proceas is as rapid aa the old method, less coHly, and onabWt th manu fucturer to secure and utilize all the juico ñatead of abouC half as herctofore. The mili ia capable of working up every tweiity-four hours 150 tons ot cane, maktal thurrfrom 18,000 pau n ds of augar or more. Krom the tlrst gwhiglng hl the centrifugáis from 100 to 115 pounda of sugar per ton of cant; was outalned, ard about twoiity pouiKls more are ecpetted trom the 8econd swinglng. A yield of from ten to flfteen tona of cane per acre was beiug secured, whiuli would proilnrc, by Hila new procesa, from 1,200 to 1,500 pounds of sugar. This sogar is wonh by the car load tive aud oue-half cents per pound. After the Hrst n-eek'9 work it was cstiinated that over 100,000 ponnds of augar had already been made. Nor is thls all. To every ton of cane, asido from the augar In it, there are trom ten or twelve gallons of molumea, and also the seed raised upon tiie cane, amounting to twenty-Iive biuhels per acre, and just as frood for feeding all kinds of stock as Indian corn. Indeed the seed it is estimated, wlll pay for raWag the caue, whioh is a merlt posaeased by no other eugar plant. 'J'hc commis8ioner says: "The results of these experiments upon the country Wlll, I believe, be most beneticial. Our natlon ia paying f100,000,000 to the augur producers or' other countrles, and if we have demonstrated that we eau profltably prexluce sufcar on our own farms, it is a matter of the bighest impórtame to the country. It will nut only keep this money at home but will save to our people $50,000,000 annually in customs duties I cunnot see why onr people sliould not ¦,'( to iiiaking 8urar. A complete sugar fnetory will coU about :is mucli as i flooriag mili, and can be run with iieat protlt accordin to the present cxpcrinienis. Furmera are glad to raise the enne at f2.00 per ton, and at that it pays better than other faun ruluct-. There is au over productfon of ino.t l.iini crops m.iklng prict. ruinously luw, ai d Iftntue imlu6try will employ a portion of tliose now rul.-ing otlitr üiings ut no prolit, il wlll give freat relief to tlie farmiii'.' ulaMei and open a most promising tifkl to both farmer and nianiitacturcr. Tlie annual coiisuinptioii ol sujrar per capita is abitut forty pounds. Onr populwiod i doubling every twentyfivc yi?ri. At the end of 'lic iiext twiMiryfive ycars we will bc payingat lea $200,000,000 for suai icr cai. 'Ibis money we can keep at homo and dMribute aniong ur own peopfe. I look upon Illese cxperinient as important to this country as the inveiition ot the eotton in. Tln-y liae ileinoiistraU.il that re llave a silgar plant that can be grown uid convcrtcl prolitably into sujiai souih ol .(9th parallel out, ol rencii of the eailv froat, to tlie Guit of Mexico, anl tha't thia countiy tan aid will lie Independent of every otliL-r nation lor Migar. It lias tafean a long to overeóme .11 of the obMnclM lli.it liave oven niet, but thcy have been oveicome. us it uow aeems. Tnta new proceda wlll be tried ou south ern cane. I bare arrunged for ennductQL similar experimenta in LoiuMana with the ritib,.n ctlie, and we havo all tlie ni ecssary machinerj w rendv lor condoctiS Ilie nuwt crucial tests in comp.nison wlih liot milHiiM pacaM in exiRtem-e. As the MmtMrB cune iloes nut matuio uutll November we cannot begin our experiments uittil that time, but lam aanguine ot llu-lr wicc8. I am not unminilful tlwt the-re has be.-u much enthii (.asm expir-sed in the past relat ive to aorghura augar. The trouble that was under the ohl system but forty pound? of sugar per ton ol cane could be nbtained, while under the new procesa much more than one humlred poiimig is obtained. Tluretorc, while under the old m.thods it was found unprutitübli; to make sugar, under the new ytoin the largely increui-ed yield will próvida a piotitable industry eren at the present prieeg í suffar. I may be callad enthusiaític, but seeing is believing, and from wliat I have 8eeu in the past few weaks I believe that in a few yeare' time ev rybody will ndm t that there is very good groond lor my present enthuaiaam."