Wood, tobacco, meat, flour, beans, molasses, onions and a villainous kind of whisky made from sorghum, were the staple articles of trade.

Also on the menu were tortillas made from sorghum - rather than wheat or corn - and duck, which is fed sorghum in China.

They had smuggled in some canteens of a cheap, vile whisky made from sorghum-andthey grew quite hilarious in their Big Tent over their potations.

As it has been abundantly proved, he says, that sugar can be made from sorghum, the Government should make no further experiments in this direction.