Show NOT SO WITH SORGHUM Editor Deseret News I notice the following in in your Satur Satur- Saturday's days day's issue M HM has bas 11 di vexed the re- re remarkable remarkable re remarkable fact that the sugar coat fined in the sugar cane dt disappears pears i entirely a as the seed aeed ripens Th The same with sorghum This is ts not true with regard to sor- sor sorghum sorghum sor sorghum The fact fac Is that the sugar d gar In Increases in- in increases Increases creases up to the time of the the eel eed r an and t has its maximum of sugar at the tIme time the seed Is ripe If how how- however however ever the cane stands any jen length th of time after the seed is ril ripe the sugar sagar sugar product is diminished When it is re- re remembered remembered that sugar beet produces seed eed in lU its second Tear rear rear of at of it dug up ep ready t for r ugar sugar the first year laid away all win wui- tel ter winter and planted out out the wing year vear for for seed the c conditions being so 0 differ differ- different different inthe ent from a plant that pr produces se d in inthe inthe the same year as it iL is perfect for use se it can be readily seep seen s en that what Might inthe be true in one casell case need ed not be true trite in the other Quoting Quotin from the Agricultural R port on 00 the subject of sorghums sorghum sorghum containing an analyses account of several thousand analyses ses in 1881 and 2 Early amber cane at Its fourteenth stage when the 8 seed ed was dry and split with the juice had bad specific gravity of 1083 and con con- con tamed contained contain tain of sugar product 1481 1488 per cent while 15 days later when the seed was fully ripe and hard bard enough to grind th and and the specific gravity was 1091 and the juice contained 1861 per percent cent s suerose or su sugar ar product prod act This was its mum mum sta stage e and it deteriorated from Sept 3rd to Nov down to 1303 1308 per cent percent of sugar with glucose and solids not sugar largely increased As is I hope the day is not far distant w en we shall make here our own su sugar ugal ar Iam I Iam Iam am anxious that the people shalL ahall be correctly informed Very Respectfully ARTHUR STAYNER |