Corn, at 30 bushels, 1,680 pounds per acre.
Wheat, at 15 bushels, 900 pounds per acre.
The sugar from the sorghum is worth say 5 cents per pound; the molasses,
13/4 cents per pound; the seed, 1/2 cent per pound.
The sorghum products give market values as follows:
750 pounds sugar at say 5 cents,[2] $37.50.
1,000 pounds molasses at say 13/4 cents,[2] $17.50.
900 pounds seed at say 1/2 cent,[2] $4.50.
Total value of sorghum, less fodder, $59.50.
The corn crop gives 1,680 pounds, at 1/2 cent $8.40.
The wheat crop gives 900 pounds, at 1 cent, $9.
[Footnote 2: The sugar sold this year at 53/4 cents per pound, the
molasses at 20 cents per gallon, and the seed at ---- per bushel
of 56 pounds. The seed is of about equal value with corn for
feeding stock.]
Thus it will be seen that the sorghum yields to the farmer more than
twice as much per acre as either of the leading cereals, and as a gross
product of agriculture and manufacture on our own soil more than six
times as much per acre as is usually realized from either of these
standard crops.
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A new process for producing iron and steel direct from the ore has been
brought out in Russia. Under the new process iron ore, after being
submitted to the smelting processes, is taken direct from the furnace to
the rolling mill and turned into thin sheets of the finest charcoal
iron.
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