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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Considering the former discordant and unsettled state of opinion on this subject, as already set forth in the opening of this report, we can hardly wonder that failure was the rule and success the exception in the former attempts to produce sugar from sorghum. The juice of sorghum even in its best state of development is an extremely delicate and unstable solution of sugar, passing rapidly from sucrose to glucose under the influence of various factors which act to transform it, unless manipulated with skill and in suitable apparatus.
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thus producing a very imperfect crop, little, if any, of which was in a fit state to be cut and manufactured. On this point the statements of Peter Lynch, the sugar boiler, are conclusive, there being, as he says, but two days, October 4 and 5, when he received cane in even a reasonably mature state, and from this he readily produced sugar.
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