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Photographer: M. L.
Taken: June 17, 1999
Caption: Work shed
Additional Description: I believe this is and old sorghum mill. The thrasher is to the right, the long post sticking out horizontally from the right side of the picture. For those wondering, sorghum is usually a sweet molasses type syrup, similar to honey. Excerpt from Answers.com Sci-Tech Encyclopedia: Sorghum Sorghum includes many widely cultivated grasses having a variety of names in various countries. Cultivated sorghums in the United States are classified as a single species, Sorghum bicolor, although there are many varieties and hybrids. The two major types of sorghum are the grain, or nonsaccharine, type, cultivated for grain production and to a lesser extent for forage, and the sweet, or saccharine, type, used for forage production and for making syrup and sugar.
Submitted: September 5, 2008, by M. L. 'Mitch' Gambrell of Taylors, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p34299
File Size: 0.085 Megabytes

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