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Mr. STEWART informs us that sorghum was introduced in 1854 into the United States from France, whither it had been carried from China. It is now grown on a large scale and quite successfully, in North America. The little treatise now before us is intended as a manual for the manufacture of syrup and sugar from this plant: the author has divided his work into thirty chapters, treating consecutively of the history and cultivation of the sorghum, the extraction of sugar from it and the mode of utilising the various waste products obtained.
Sorghum and its Products.—An Account of recent Investigations concerning the Value of Sorghum in Sugar Production, &c. &c.
By F. L. Stewart. (Lippencott: Philadelphia, 8vo. 1869. London: Trübner.)
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Sorghum and its Products.—An Account of recent Investigations concerning the Value of Sorghum in Sugar Production, &c. &c.. Nature 1, 403 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/001403a0
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