| Show tile SUGAR CANE A in m new york has sent the editor of the post a sample of very good brandy made from the syrup of the new sugar suar plant the sorgho or chinese chinesa sugar cane lie he says it costs about 30 cents per gallon to produce and is worth in the tile market irom from thoral 1 to 2 per gallon accordi according ng to quality in a note he says I 1 the manufacture of spirit from the sorgho may inay now be carried on by our farmers in the winter season when there is no oth other er occupation for them at the tho rate of a gallon of proof spirit for each gallon of fermented syrup this will find ready sale at the rectifiers who will turn it into alcohol for camp ileno lieno ad and other oilier purposes the quantity of alcohol now used for purposes of illumination alone to say nothing of varnishes chloroform I 1 and medici medicinal nui nul extracts ii enormous and was beginning to have llave a serious edlet effect on tha the price of bread owing oiling to the wholesale destruction of the cereals required to produce it now koiv however we have found a substitute which abich besides supplying syrup and alcohol will also yield fr from flom om tile the same crop a large amount of forage and grain forthe for the fattening ot of stock |
