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Bible without this improvement, and one of the great points gained is 

 the warming of the soil to a greater depth, on account of the removal 

 of the water and the lessening of the loss of heat by evaporation. 



CANE VARIETIES AT CINNAMON HILL. 



St. James. 



Mr. Shore has recorded the yields of cane from the Cane Varieties 

 grown at Cinnamon Hill as ratoons, the canes were irrigated and gave 

 five times the average yield of the non-irrigable lands of the estate 

 which suffered severely from the unprecedented drought. D. 116, 

 D. 51 and D. 102 have done well as ratoons. These experiments in- 

 dicate that some of the seedlings are decidedly superior to the estate 

 canes under irrigation conditions. 



It is hoped that the proposed central factory project may be carried 

 through and an extension of the irrigable lands be made possible. 



H. H. Cousins. 



REPORT ON EXPERIMENT CANES AT CINNAMON HILL,- 



AS FIRST RATOONS. 



These canes were cut as plants on 21st August, 1902, and again as^ 

 first ratoons on 15th June, 1903, only ten months old. 



This could not be helped as the estate's crop was finished and some 

 alterations were to be made in the works later. 



The juice stood only 6.6 Baume average ; owing largely to a fall of 

 16.25 inches of rain in May — an exceptional fall for this district. 

 The rainfall for the ten months was 47.53 ins. but was unequally dis- 

 tributed, the first four months of 1903 being very dry. Irrigation was 

 used during that time, so that the growth was kept up. 



The extraction of juice by mill was 67o/o, against 65o/o lasti^ 



