to conduct the operations of a factory the investment of $250,000 to
$500,000 in a single plant almost anywhere in the United States, not
further north than 40° of latitude, sorghum-sugar making can be made
a commercial success. This is especially true of the region west of the
Mississippi Eiver, extending, from the north line of Missouri south-
ward.
What has been done and is now being done in Kansas demonstrates
this proposition clearly. Should Congress continue the protection
policy of the country and let the present bounty law run its course, or
restore the old duty on foreign sugar, it may be reasonably expected
that the sorghum sugar industry would develop rapidly, much to the
advantage of farmers in the region above described. The foundation
is now begun in Kansas, where two factories are in successful oper-
a'ion.
The sugar output as reported by the state sugar inspector for 1893
was 934,172 pounds. Of this, 730,372 pounds was made at the Fort
Scott works of the Parkinson Sugar Company audiS03,§flO ,4)0unds by
the Medicine Lodge Sugar Company, upon which the total State bounty,
under the laws, amounted to $7,006.-9.
