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The Sorghum Sugar Industry: Introduction
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... The questions relating to the value of sorghum for food for men or animals, of its use as forage, or for the manufacture of spirits, glucose, beer, and vinegar, &c., are all subordinate to the sugar-producing value of the plant. For more than a quarter of a century sirup has been made from sorghum, over a wide range of country in the United States, both north and south, and for a time it was confidently believed that sorghum culture would assume great importance as a source of cane-sugar.


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