182 THE CHINESE SUGAR CANE. 
THE SEED MAY BE GATHERED WHEN CROWN FOR A SYRUP CROP. 
It has been sufficiently well proved that the ripening 
of the seed of the sorgho does not interfere with the ex- 
traction of the full richness of the saccharine matters in 
the juice, and the farmer who is desirous of growing 
enough of acrop to make the molasses for his family 
use, will be furnished with a further inducement to do so 
from the fact, that at the same time he can be cultivating 
a prolific crop of seed for feeding to his poultry, and a 
large amount of green forage, in the leaves, for his 
horses and stock. 
APPARATUS NECESSARY. 
To persons who merely desire to make a few gallons 
of syrup for their family use, a complete apparatus is not 
of paramount importance; but if it is m contemplation 
to duplicate such extensive practice as that of Mr. Peters, 
it will be a matter of positive economy to procure a mill 
and boilers that will extract the greatest possible amount 
of sap from a given quantity of stalks. The juice last 
expressed from the cane is the richest, and it is therefore 
desirable to procure a mill of sufficient strength to ex- 
stract nearly the whole sap. Small farmers and planters 
can, of course, only approximate to this end, because of 
the great grinding capacity and very large expense of 
the more powerful mills; but I do not think that a farmer, 
with a crop of only five or ten acres, should use a wooden 
roller mill when he can procure one with iron rollers for 
twice or thrice the money, The canes of the sorgho are 
