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appreciable change. The lot of cane marked lk B " probably 

 suffered some small depreciation, but it was subject to 

 slightly different circumstances. It has been mentioned 

 that the local practice is to take up the cane with its surface 

 roots intact. If, however, this mode of preserving cane for 

 a factory were adopted, it was thought that this factor 

 would add somewhat to the cost, costing rather more to lift 

 from the ground and rather more to carry. Hence the lot 

 of cane marked " B " was clamped without roots, but with 

 leaves intact. This cane, as also all the other, remained 

 practically perfectly sound, only the cut ends of the cane 

 showing signs of rotting. This factor probably accounts 

 for the somewhat greater depreciation of the juice, though 

 it may be also partly due to error of sampling. 



In any case these experiments show that sugarcane may 

 be preserved in clamps over considerable periods practic- 

 ally intact. 



Gur. — A number of samples of the locally made gur 

 were analysed. These varied (with one exception) from 

 70 — 74 per cent, sucrose, and from 12 — 15 per cent, glucose. 



Sugar-beet. — Two varieties of sugar-beet were sown, 

 namely, Vilmorin and Klein Wanzleben. One plot of the 

 latter was sown on September 20th, and plots of the former 

 were sown on October 10th and 20th, November 10th and 

 20th and February 20th. Germination and subsequent 

 growth were very good and uniform. Tests of these plots 

 were made frequently, commencing naturally with the 

 earliest sown. The samples consisted at first, in each case, 

 of about 20 roots taken from uniformly distributed points 

 over the plot, which enabled one to form an opinion on the 

 progress of sugar formation, and so soon as the roots ap- 

 peared to be well grown, the number of the roots was 

 increased to about 100 per sample, taken similarly from 

 uniformly distributed points. Not only do such samples 

 yield accurate information as to the quality of the crop, 

 but, together with a knowledge of the number of roots per 

 plot, indirectly of its weight. 



