Bj ATTGHBTUB A. HATES, M. D , ABsayer to the State of KasMchiuettab

Early after the ripening of this plant the stalks were sent to me for
a chemical examination of the kind of sugar produced from the juice.
Samples of the syrup, from several places in the northern states, and
one sample made by Colonel Peters, of (Jeorgia, were also given to me.
The research was deemed important in its economical bearings, and
interesting in a chemical view. The course was, therefore, made to
embrace a knowledge of the sugar as it naturally existed in the stalk,
in its appropriate cells, and of the sugar extracted by the refined
methods of modem chemistry.
Sugar in the CeUs. — ^The horizontal and angular sections of the
pith of various samples of the sorghum plant, produced from the
black, or French variety of seed, were found, when viewed by the
microscope, to show perfectly-formed cells, with every character of
maturation.
In these cells, isolated from other principles, a fluid sugar could be
seen and experimented on easily.
