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the seed so thinly distributed as to permit of each forming a 
stool, are plainly indicated. The proper distance between 
these stools or hills, in order to produce the heaviest crop 
of the best quality of cane, will vary somewhat according 
to the time of planting and the nature of the soil and sea- 
son. But when the above conditions are complied with, 
as heavy a crop as the land can ordinarily sustain can be 
obtained with the stools about 15 inches asunder in the 
row, and the rows 4 feet apart. No suckers should be re- 
moved, for, if the proper precautions are observed, no more 
suckers will be thrown. out than the roots are able to sus- 
tain. 
It iseasy to see that in cases where the growth of side 
shoots is encouraged for a time by any mcde of treatment 
by which the roots are permitted to extend themselves, and 
then the development of the latter is suddenly and perma- 
nently checked, an immature and badly developed stool 
will be the result, with which (thus produced by a mode of 
treatment inconsiderately adopted) planters have had good 
reason to be dissatisfied. When, on the contrary, favor- 
able influences were secured, especially early planting of 
the seed, the heavy yield and excellent character of the 
crop, where the suckers have matured, are sufiicient to lead 
to a very different judgment. 
It will be evident from what has been already said, that 
the difference between early and late planted sorghum is 
similar in kind-to that between fall and spring wheat. It 
is a difference of growth, vigor, and development. Au- 
tumn-sown wheat, during the milder intervals of winter, 
when a slow growth is encouraged, acquires a vigorous 
constitution; it is allowed sufficient time to develop its 
roots, although the blade may have perished in the frost; 
and when confirmed mild weather comes, it is ready to put 
forth a luxuriant clump of blades and stems. Spring wheat 
