SOILS REQUIRED—CULTURE—MANURING. 55D 
small and tender. As soon after this as it is possible 
to spare time, we run the one horse subsoil plow 
twice between the rows, going up alongside one row, 
and down by the other. The subsequent cultivation 
is only a repetition of this practice. 
HYBRIDIZATION. 
It must be remembered, that the Chinese Sugar Cane is 
a congener to broom corn, Guinea or chocolate corn, 
Doura and Kgyptian millet, and must not be planted 
anywhere near any one of these, for in such case it 
would most undoubtedly hybridize with them and lose 
a great part of its sugar-bearing qualities. It is thought 
by many extremely probable that the above varieties 
are only hybridizations of the same original plant. 
CURING FODDER. 
Considerable care should be taken in curing the fall. 
crop for stacking. Mr. D. Jay Browne recommends cut- 
ting the stalks when the thermometer stands at 40 to 50 
degrees Fahr., for it is then less likely to sour. The 
method of cutting practiced by Dr. Robert Battey, of 
Georgia, is as follows: ‘The fodder (leaves) should be 
stripped, as is corn, by the first set of hands; another set 
cut off one and a half to two feet of the top of the stalk 
with the seed, while others cut the cane at the ground 
and throw it into piles, from whence it is hauled to the 
press.” It will scarcely be necessary, I trust, to urge 
the necessity of having got the mill and boilers in readi- 
