CAVA LP TR. XX VE 
COMPARISON OF SOUTHERN CANE AND SORGHUM. 
1. Botanical Characters—Period of Growth—Propagation—Tiller- 
ing—Climate—Soil—Manures—Maturity of Juice—Condition of 
the Juice in different parts of the Stalk—Chemical Composition 
of the Stalk—Chemical Composition of the Juice. 
Tue following brief but comprehensive sketch of the chief 
characteristics, respectively of Southern sugar cane and 
sorghum, will, it is hoped, serve to correct misapprehensions 
existing in the minds of many in regard to the relative 
importance of the latter as a sugar plant. A comparison 
is here instituted which will show that these two species 
of plants, although differing widely from each other in 
some particulars, are really very much alike—that the 
Northern cane is a true analogue of the cane of the South, 
in its most important characters, although of a different 
species—and that in saccharine richness the one approaches 
much more closely to the other than has generally been 
believed. 
It is obvious that where the resemblance between them 
is close—due allowance being made for differences in their 
natural relations to soil, climate, etc.—-those modes of 
treatment, which the experience of two or three centuries 
has proved to be the best for the one plant, may safely, 
and with great advantage, be applied to the other. On the 
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