Sugar From Corn-stalks

As has already been announced, Prof. Collier has Avitínu a short time, at the Department oí Agriculture in Washington, conducted a Reries of important and interesting experiments in the production of sngar froni corn-stalks and sorghum. From 25,000 pounds of these stalks he cbtained 382 pounds of corn ■ irup and 659J pounds of sorglmm sirup, eqnaling 781 pounds of very good crystallizable sugar. With more perfect machinery he thinks that he should have eollectcd 1,150 pounds of sugar. The correct percentage of sugar, he thinks, ought to be about 75 per cent. The experiment with niillet-stalks vas promising. F rom 130 pounds of a new French niillet-stalk and leavcs he pbtained twenty-nine pounds of juice. The experiments of making sugar from sorghum in Minnesota, by private firms and individuáis, have been tolerably sucoéssful. - CliicogQ Journal.