1'6-i REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE. 



Analyses of mixed mill juices. 



The above is a foir exposition of the quality of the juices worked by 

 the company duriuji;- the season. It shows that there is much yet to be 

 done in the culture and improvement of the cane before a product is 

 obtained which is fa\'orable to the production of a large quantity of sugar 

 per ton. I am told by the officers of the company that the season has 

 been unusually- unfavorable, a late wet spring and a remarkably early 

 freeze combining to prevent the cane from reaching maturity. 



The mean coefficient of purity of the juices worked by the company is 

 G1.3. I have every reason to believe that by proper culture, fertilizing, 

 and selection, sorghum cane can be produced in which the juices will 

 have a coefficient of purity of 75 to SO. The importance of securing such 

 a cane is even greater than that of extracting all the sugar and properly 

 defecating the juice. 



In continuing the experiments in topping the cane as soon as the seed- 

 heads appear, as described in Bulletin Ko. 5, the following results were 

 obtained with canes grown as nearly as possible on the same kind of 

 soil and under the same conditions of culture : 



