140 THE CHINESE SUGAR CANE. 
POOREST EIGHTH OF AN ACRE. 
Yield of juice from 2550 canes, - : 179 gallons. 
Yield of syrup from 179 gallons juice, - 48% gallons. 
Rate per acre, of syrup, . - . 346 gallons. 
Weight of thirty select canes, - - - 494 pounds. 
Weight of juice pressed out, ; - 25? pounds. 
Weight of crushed cane, - - - - 28 pounds. 
Loss in crushing, . - . . 2 pounds 
Weight of crushed cane dried in sun, - 94 pounds. 
Or, in other words, he made an average crop, jour hundred 
and seven gallons of syrup; and even then obtained only 
five sevenths of which he actually should, if he had been 
in possession of perfect machinery. 
With such results as these for consideration, how for- 
tunate, nay, how providential must it seem, that just as 
short crops, combination of capitalists, and increase of 
consumers threaten us with an alarming advance in the 
price of an article which is no longer a luxury, but a 
necessary of life, a new sugar plant is given to us, of such 
prolific resources as this Chinese Sugar Cane. 
