Sorghum as a Source of Sugar

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Excerpt from Sorghum as a Source of Sugar: Including a Review of the Bulletins of the Department of Agriculture A sufficient explanation of this brief publication of certain of the facts concerning sorghum and review of the several Bulletins of Professor Wiley is found in the importance of the subject and in the fact that these occasional bulletins are the only official utterances upon which the public trust chiefly for information which should be a full and careful statement of the facts as they are developed in the progress of the work of investigation. That, however, it is clear that these successive bulletins have been far from full statements of fact, will, in the opinion of the writer, appears from what follows, and it will be seen that there have been frequent contradictions as also suppressions of such facts as are of leading value in reaching any fair conclusion from the results obtained. Whether such contradictions, suppressions, misstatements and misrepresentations have been the result of carelessness, ignorance or willfulness will be the measure of actual turpitude involved, but practically it is obvious that the result has been the same, and the public have been mis-led, capital always ready for investment when the returns appeared within reasonable expectation, has been made timid, and the large sums of money appropriated and expended ostensibly for the purpose of solving the numerous practical and scientific problems which would render the results more certain and lucrative to those entering upon this new industry, have been almost wholly wasted, and those who have looked for information and guidance have been bewildered and disconcerted by conflicting directions. In 1877 the writer was called to the Department of Agriculture at Washington by General LeDuc, then Commissioner of Agriculture and by him placed in charge of investigations looking to the economical production of sugar from sorghum and maize stalks. This investigation was entered upon and continued by the writer for five years, and from the first gave results so promising that there appeared no-good reason to doubt that sugar could be produced from these plants at a cost not exceeding one cent a pound. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.