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Suggested Citation:"The Committee ." National Research Council. 1883. Investigation of the Scientific and Economic Relations of the Sorghum Sugar Industry: Being a Report Made in Response to a Request From the Hon. George B. Loring. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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COMMITTEE. MEMBERS OP THE ACADEMY. WILLIAM H. BREWER, Ph. Dr., Norton Professor of Agriculture, Sheffield Scientific School, Yale College. CHAS. F. CHANDLER, Ph. Dr., Professor of Chemistry, Columbia College, New York. SAMUEL W. JOHNSON, M. A., Professor of Theoretical and Agricultural Chemistry, Sheffield Scientific School, Yale College. BENJ. SILLIMAN, M. A., M. D., Chairman, Professor of Chemistry, &c., Yale College. J. LAWRENCE SMITH, M. D., late Professor of Chemistry, University of Louisville, Kentucky. AND ALSO NOT OF THE ACADEMY. GIDEON E. MOOKE, Ph. D., Expert, New York. NOTE.—Dr. C. A. GOSSSMANN, Professor of Chemistry at the M assachusetts Agri cultural College, at Amherst, was also a member of this Committee, and acted in the work until September 15, 1882, when he resigned. The Committee desire to acknowl- edge the valuable co-operation of their colleague in the inception and progress of this investigation, and to express their regret that his name should not appear on this report, as it so often appears in it, as one of the earliest investigators of the augar-producing capacity of sorghum.

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE.

NOTE. JUNE, 1883. The first draft of this report was submitted to the National Academy of Sciences at its session in Washington in April, 1882. The official copy of the Document was transmitted to the Commissioner of Agri- culture in November following. The Committee have embraced this opportunity to add to their Report the results of the crop grown in 1882, as also some matters of historical interest relating to sorghum. THE COMMITTEE.

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Sorghum is a plant that for many years has been used in the United States in an attempt to produce sugar. For over 25 years sorghum had been used to create syrup and it was believed that it sorghum would become a vital source of cane-sugar. Despite attempts, sorghum did not produce enough sugar to be of worth commercially. On January 30, 1882 the United States Commissioner of Agriculture of the Department of Agriculture, Hon. George B. Loring, requested that the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) review "the sorghum question"; that is the sugar-producing value of sorghum. Investigation of the Scientific and Economic Relations of the Sorghum Sugar Industry presents the NAS sorghum Committee's results following its investigation into the matter. The report includes the findings of the committee, the failures and success of producing sugar from sorghum, letters of transmittal, and more.

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