1919 A 



SUGAR CANE EXPERIMENTS. 



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It would appear from the first year's results that certain varieties 

 are useless for raising new seadlings and th3 d3te3tion of good parents 

 seems to be of great importanc2 as will be seen below : 



Table I. — Sugar-Cane Seedlings raised ix 1917. 



Pakent <'axe. 



Number of Seed- 

 lings- planted 

 out in field. 



Selected for testing 

 from field characters. 



•jelected for further 

 trialfrom fieldcharac- 

 ters and analytical 

 results. 



B. G388 ... 



B. 15G ... 



H. 27 ... 



T. 7") ... 



D. llii .. 



D. CJ.-i .\ B. G335 



D. ()25 X B. G3SS 



D. G2.'> .\ Dadilla 



D. (J2.J .\ B. 2US 



Bourbon ... 



B. 6308 ... 



H. ? (1) ... 



None of the seedlings raised from B.6388 and B. 156 were sufficiently 

 good to warrant the juice being tested. Out of 112 H. 27 and 408 T. 75 

 seedlings only 2 and 24 respectively exhibited sufficiently good field 

 characters and when these were tested none came up to the mark. 

 Similarly none of the D. 116 seedling past the analytical test out of the 

 9 selected for their field characters. Only one each of the crosses 

 between D. 625 and B. 6835 and B. 6388 has been kept for a seconrl 

 trial ; this represents 1-6 and 3-6 per cent, respectively of the number 

 grown. Five each of the crosses between the Badilla and B. 208 with 

 D. 625 have been kept for further trial. Out of the 286 Bourbon 

 seedlings raised, 90 or 31-5 per cent, were selected for their field 

 characters and 22 or 7*7 per cent, are being kept for a second trial. 

 Two seedHngs raised from B. 6303 out of twenty are also being kept 

 and out of 76 H. ? seedlings 31 or 40-8 per cent, were selected for 

 analysis and of these 13 or 17-1 per cent, of the number grown have 

 given juice of good quality. 



The following are the results of the seedlings raised in 1917, which 

 have been selected for their combined field characters and analytical 

 results and are being kept for a further trial. They were planted out in 

 the field from bamboo pots in June 191 8 and were consequently only 

 eleven months old when tested between May 16 and 29, 1919. The 

 rainfall from June 1918 to May 15, 1919 was 51-72 inches but from 

 January to March, 1919 only 1-68 inches of rain fell and during this 

 period the seedlings made very little growth. 



(1.) A Hawaiian caue received without a number owing to the label having become 

 illegible on the journey. — (,Ei). ) 



