Show IN FAR VIAND GARDEN Observations and Experiments of Interest to Farmers ON AGRICULTURAL UTENSILS Sugar Making In This Country The Diffusion Process of Making SugarSorghum Sugar for Home Consumption Nearly all of the enormous amount of sugar consumed in the United States is of foreign growth because we cannot hope to compete with the tropics in tho production of cane sugar Any information informa-tion in regard to increasing tho yield in our small sugar cane districts or of successfully suc-cessfully manufacturing sugar from other plants of wider adaptability to our i soil and climate cannot fail to be of general gen-eral interest r From a brief review of tho condition of tho sugar problem in a recent report of tho commissioner of agriculture many facts of interest are learned in regard to points that have been determined by experiments ex-periments made under tho supervision of the department with the hope of securir a still greater prosperity for tho sugar industry and with the ultimate object of producing at homo all the sugar which we consume One point of great interest appears in tho statement that by the adoption of tho diffusion process tho quantity of cane sugar produced is largely increased and its manufacture rendered more effective and economical So satisfactory has this diffusion process proven in Louisiana it promises to speedily replace the old milling mill-ing system and render sugar making in this country a profitable industry Ono of time most promising sources of sugar for home consumption is found in tho sorghum plant It has been satisfactorily satis-factorily ascertained that this plant appears ap-pears to flourish in regions too hot and dry for the successful production of Indian In-dian corn a fact of great importance toI I the semiarid regions of the southwest The sorghum plant is ono of wide variations varia-tions sometimes showing a sugar producing pro-ducing quality almost equal to the sugarcane sugar-cane Beet sugar has been made successfully suc-cessfully on the Pacific coast In California Cali-fornia Oregon and Washington territory are extensive localities where a beet rich in sugar can bo grown On this side of the Rocky mountains Northern Indiana Southern and Western Michigan Northern North-ern Ohio and New York also present soil and climate favorable to the culture of tho sugar beet The commissioner recommends the establishment of a special experiment station in a suitable locality for the futuro study of the variations in the sorghum plant with a view to the perpetuity per-petuity of tho one best suited to the manufacture of sugar t |