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purpose I made a like experiment on three estates. From a field, 

 where cane which had flowered stood together on the same plots with 

 cane that had not, canes were cut at the moment of maturity. Of 

 both, several thousands were cut and conveyed separately to the mill. 

 On two estates the tops were cut for seed from the non-arrowed canes, 

 and on the third the tops were crushed together with the canes. At 

 the mill 200 canes of each kind were measured and weighed, and 

 afterwards the whole of the cane, both that which had blossomed and 

 that which had not, was ground separately and the juice analysed. 

 The figures obtained were as follows : — 



The analyses of the juice thus showed no considerable difference 

 except in the case of the Pagongan estate, where the percentage of 

 available sugar in the juice of the non-arrowed cane is 1-^ per cent, 

 less than in the other case. 



Though the flowering of the cane is a distinct loss to the planters 

 owing to the fact that it decreases the available quantity of planting 

 material, it has no influence as regabds the yield in sugar if the canes 

 are cut in proper time, but, after this, the flowering cane dies much 

 earlier than cane which has not arrowed. Where circumstances 

 prevent the planter from cutting his canes at the moment of maturity, 

 a field which has arrowed will contain more dead canes than one 

 which has not, but if the crop can be crushed in due time, the 

 difference will not be perceptible. 



H. C. Prinsen Geerligs. 



Tegal, Java, 



24th December, 1894. 



