vul OONTENTS. 
CHAPTER IV. 
METHOD OF CULTIVATION (CONTINUED )—EARLY PLANTING. 
Early Planting essentially Important, and why—Analogy to 
Wheat—‘‘ Volunteer Cane’”’—Conditions of growth during 
the First Period, and Influence of a Low Temperature—This 
Period falls within the limits of the Meteorological Spring, 
in the Latitude of Philadelphia—Disadvantages of Planting 
at a Later Period—Reasons why a System of Early Spring 
Planting should in all Cases be followed—How the Condi- 
tions necessary to Success by this System may be obtained 
—Fall Plowing and Deep Tillage almost indispensable—Col- 
lateral Advantages secured thereby ; ; 
CHAPTER V. 
METHOD OF CULTIVATION (CONTINUED)—RIDGING. 
Ridging of the Land indispensable when Early Planting is 
practiced—Mode of Ridging adopted—Enumeration of the 
Peculiar Benefits due to this Practice—After-culture of the 
Cane described—Illustration : : : 
CHAPTER VI. 
MANURES. 
The Food of the Plant—Special Manures—Influence of Ma- 
nures rich in Nitrogen at the various stages of the develop- 
ment of Cane—Analysis of the Ash—Function of the Min- 
eral Food or Ash-ingredients—The Elements of Sugar, 
whence derived—Precautions necessary to be observed —By 
what Means Exhaustion of the Soil by Successive Crops of 
Cane may be prevented, without ae tee a System of Ro- 
tation of Crops . ; : ; j : 
CHAPTER VII. 
MANURES (CONTINUED). 
The Begasse or Cane Trash— How it may be disposed of — 
Uses—Its Composition— How to convert it into a most 
Valuable Manure— Rationale of the decomposition of the 
Trash—Waste Products—Their Use as Manures—Mineral 
Manures, from Artificial Sources, how supplied—Gypsum 
as a Special Fertilizer— Harris’s Experiments—Analogies 
and Conclusions—Mode of action of Gypsum as applied to 
Cane—Why most Energetic when applied to Early- ee 
Cane—Importance of Potash as a Fertilizer 
