Show S SUGAR u ra AR IN TOBACCO three rinda heretofore va un owr to che chemists A recent number of the new bulletin english contains some particulars of a very i interesting n t problem which some years a ago g 1 D was submitted by the treasury to the kew authority the question was I 1 does natural sugar occur in tobacco and in the a tion of this point some same striking facts have been brought to light the treasury authorities were of course chiefly interested from a fiscal point of view the duty on tobacco other than cigars being as ad except in of sweetened tobacco which is charged at as lod but cigarettes made of the sweetened ened article are not allowed to be imported at all before this investigation it was gene generally rely admitted that tobacco did not contain more than a trace of saccharine matter on the advice of prof church dr hugo miller was called in the latter making a thorough e examination of the question Coin commercial mercial samples of laight bright virginia tobacco undoubtedly free from adulte adulteration raVon were foundton found to contain as much as per cent of saccharine h matter atter sun dried leaves of tabacum grown at kew contained 62 per cent and those of the same species bedea grown at ewell railway station as much as 0 per cent dr miller finds the saccharine matter to be optically efly inactive when tested by the he is of the opinion that cane sugar nor glucose is present in the saccharine matter but that it is composed of at least three sugar like substances probably hitherto unknown k |