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ders. The canes having undergone one expression, and being 
consequently in a split state, are not thrust a second time 
through till all the irons are greased. The cylinders are not 
always of the same dimensions; those I examined were two 
-eubits high, and one and two-thirds in diameter, these are the 
common size; I am however told they are sometimes much 
larger.” : 
Topoint out the benefit that may accrue to the cultivators 
of this sugar cane, I need only add the following copy of a 
letter from Mr. Richard Carden, superintendent of the Ho- 
nourable Company’s rum and sugar works at Mirzapore 
Culna in Bengal, to me, dated 13th August, 1801, —— 
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 maunds, of 60 sicca weight, per bigha on 
an average ; and a profit of about 11 or 12 rupees per bigha. 
Neither the white ants nor jackals have committed any de- 
_ predations 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 Bengal sugar | 
canes. I do not think the China ones degenerate i 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 Belial sort, but planted in the West India 
mode, in the month of September or October, and suffered 
to remain on the ground till the December or January twelve > 
months, they will then yield double the returns of what the — 
Bengal canes do, which is owing in part to the length oftime 
they are in the ground, and principally to the ants and jack- eS 
a ee destroying them, whereas if the Bengal cane was 
nain so long on the ground, the natives would have’ ee 
difficulty to a part of them from ber ae 
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