238 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, Saccharum, 
can be easily watered; but, unless the farmer pleases, not 
easily flooded during vider rains, % 
The land is first well ploughed during the sista of April 
and beginning of May. The field is then flooded from the 
river, if there is not sufficient rain ; the upper part of the 
cane is then cut into two lengths of one or two joints each, 
(the lower part of the same canes are employed to make = 
sugar from) these are placed over the wet field, at about 
fifteen or eighteen inches. asunder, in rows, the rows about 
four feet from one another, and trode under the soft, wet sut> 
face with the foot; in six days after the planting, the field 
is again flooded, if there has not been rain. In about eight 
days more the shoots appear ; the land is soon after slightly 
hoed and weeded, A month after the planting some rotten 
chaff, or other such manure, is scattered about the young 
plants, Every ten or fifteen days, if there be not sufficient 
rain, the field is watered; two months from the planting, — 
some stronger manure is strewed about the plants; and every 
_ fifteen or twenty days the field is slightly hoed, _ ee ie 
weeds rooted out. 4 
- During the wet season, drains must be made, to carry” off \ 
the superabundant water. By August or September, the 
cane will be from three to five feet high; in each shoot, 
the produce of every cutting, which may contain from three e 
to six canes, a straight bamboo is stuck into thé earth, in the 
centre; to this thé canes are tied by their Teaves:’ In this 
country the leaves are never stript from the cane, but as they 
wither are tied round them. This must impede the free cif= 
culation of air, which may be conceived hurtful. In Janua~" oe 
ry, viz. between nine and ten months from the time they” were 
planted, the cane, when stript of its leaves, and the useless 
top cut off, will be about as thick asa good stout walking” 
cane, and from four to six feet long; they then begin to cut . 
the cane, express the juice, and beaks the sugar, which is with 
‘eetivte here, a very simple process ; a small mill tu : € 
by cattl squeezes a one boiler boils it. 
