WHAT IS SORGHUM?
It is a kind of cane, which can-best be used for making symp. it L largely grown in America. “ One thousand three hundred and eighteen analyses of thirty-eight varieties of sorghum, made at the Agricultural Department in Washington in 1880, present as average results per acre, 31,441 pounds stripped stalks, 19,224 pounds juice, and 1662 pounds of sugar. Results obtained in numerous cases were from 84,647 to 39,918 pounds of stripped stalks, 22,410 to 25,947 pounds of juice, and 3000 to 3337 pounds of sugar per acre, under ordinary circumstances of culture and appliances for producing sugar. The sorghum sugar about equals that of good refining cane and beet sugar, but although sorghum syrup granulates readily, it has less tendency than syrup of sugar cane and sugar beet to crystallise.” Mr R. J. Creighton, of San Francisco, has sent seed for experimental purposes to the Colonial Secretary, and he will distribute it.
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Patea Mail, 10 January 1882, Page 4
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155WHAT IS SORGHUM? Patea Mail, 10 January 1882, Page 4
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