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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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B. -FUTURE INVESTIGATIONS
Pages 51-56

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... om its earliest infancy, the beet-sugar industry has so advanced that to-day 38 per cent. of the world's supply of sugar is derived from this source -- a plant poorer in sugar, more expensive in cultivation, and far more difficult and costly in the means required for the extraction of its sugar than sugar cane -- and yet under this scientific supervision it stands practically the sole rival of the cane as a source of supply for sugar.
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From page 52...
... It is worse than idle to dogmatize on matters of this description, but dogmas will prevail where sound evidence is wanting. There are chemical agents which may be tried in connection with sorghum sugar production of which as yet we have no recorded experience and no laboratory guidance; for example, the action of sulphites and hyposulphites of the alkalies and of alkaline earths in place of sulphur fumes or sulphurous acid.
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... The spirit of scientific investigation which has led the Department of Agriculture through its chemical and agronomic researches to results of such importance towards developing a new industry of national value has been liberally fostered by the General Government, and to some extent also by certain of the States. The fruits of this policy are already beginning to show themselves in the decided success which has attended the production of sugar from sorghum on a commercial scale in the few cases in which the rules of good practice, evolved especially by the researches made at the laboratory of the Department of Agriculture, have been intelligently followed.
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