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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less sucrose, as determined by these polariscope tests, than was found by cuprous precipitation, was, for the time, attributed to a portion of invert sugar, and to various causes which probably were misconceptions, seeing that this discrepancy disappears almost entirely in the results of the present year, viz: Number of analyses and polarizations 517, of some forty varieties of sorghum. Total polarization, 5,440.76; average percentage, 10.524.
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6th. While good sirup may be produced from sorghum as a domestic industry and on a limited scale over a very wide range of country, the successful production of crystallized sugar on a commercial scale appears to demand the skill and appliances of a sugar-house conducted in a systematic manner and with ample capital.
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