Investigation of the Scientific and Economic Relations of the Sorghum Sugar Industry: Being a Report Made in Response to a Request From the Hon. George B. Loring (1883) / Chapter Skim
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€., January 10, 1883. SIR : In compliance with a resolution of the Senate, July 1, 1882, I transmit herewith for the use of the Senate a copy of the report of the committee of the National Academy of Sciences upon the subject of Sorghum Sugar.
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Loring, United States Commissioner of Agriculture, of date January 30,1882, for the "scientific investigation of the sorghum question." The scientific relations of this question are so intimately interwoven with the economic that the two cannot well be considered separately. The Committee were, therefore, glad to learn from a subsequent communication, dated March 24,1882, from the honorable Commissioner, that " he regarded the investigation of the economic value of sorghum to the sugar manufacturer the point especially interesting to his Department." Both sides of the sorghum question are, therefore, considered in the report.
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Sugar canes, &c.: Isaac A Hedges 38 14.
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"New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station XVIII: Sorghum sugar cane" 71 7. Rio Grande Sugar Company, New Jersey 74 A. -- Letter from G
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The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station: Analysis of sorghum seed, by Prof.
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