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“these-are the common size; I am however told they are sometimes 
“much larger.” 
To pomt out the benefit that may accrue to the cultivators of - 
this sugar cane, | need only add the following copy of a. letter from 
Mr. Richard Carden, superintendant of the Honourable Compa-. 
ny’s Rum and Sugar works at,Mirzapore Culna in Bengal, to me, 
dated 13th August, 1801, soon after the introduction of the cane. 
<“ With respect to the produce of the common Bengal sugar canes, 
“I have never been able to collect an account that can be depended 
* upon ; the natives generally manufacture the juice into Jaggery in 
“my neighbourhood, which yields them- nearly 14 cutcha mauids, 
“ot 60 sicca weight, per bigha on an average ; and a profit of about 
“il or 19 rupees per bigha. . Neither the white ants nor jackalls, 
“have committed any depredations on the China canes that I have | 
“planted, although the latter have often been seen among them, ` 
“which certainly gives these canes a decided preference to the Ben. . 
“gal sugar canes. I do not think the China ones degenerate in the 
“least, nor do they improve ; they appear to me to remain nearly 
"in the same state. If planted at the same time the natives put 
“their canes into the ground, they will not make such good returns 
“as the Bengal sort; but planted in the West India mode, in the 
“month of September or October, and suffered to remain on the 
“ ground ull the December or January twelve months, they will then 
» yield double the returns of what the Dengal canes do, which is 
“ owing in part to the length of time they are in the ground, and - 
“principally to the ants and Jackalls not destroying them, whereas 
“if the Bengal cane was to remain so long on the ground, the na- 
“tives would have great difficulty to prevent the greatest part of - 
“them from being destroyed, and the young. shoots would suffer "7 
“much from the hot winds, and ants, which T witnessed the seco 
“year T came to Mirzapore; but the shoots from the China canes 
VE cut last Janüary, stood the last hot season uncommonly: well, 
ae will next January, I have reason to believe, from the pn d 
"appearance, make half, or | piani - giant of 
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