PRODUCTION AND VALUE. ok 
pounds, each affording, on a low average, therefore, we 
will say, 84,000 canes, weighing 65,000 pounds, capable 
of yielding seventy-five per cent. of juice; but if taken at 
only seventy per cent., then giving 44,100 pounds of 
juice, containing fifteen per cent. of sugar. 
If from this quantity of juice the manufacturer cannot 
manage to produce two tons of good, dry, fair-colored 
sugar, then he must be unskillful indeed. 
One English acre of imphee, grown under favorable 
circumstances, will yield fully two tons of dry sugar, and 
even more; but I will not estimate the average return at 
more than 14 tons of fair, dry sugar, per acre, which it 
should most undoubtedly produce as an average crop. 
For the information of those planters who are com- 
pelled to use their cane trash or bagasse, I may say that 
the trash of the imphee can be used precisely in the same 
manner, although its proper use really is as a manure to 
return to the soil. 
The leaves and long tops of the plants form excellent 
food for horned cattle, horses, mules, sheep, ete., being 
much more delicate than the coarse leaves of the sugar 
cane. 
If the plants are suffered to mature their seed, an acre 
of land would furnish a large quantity of grain, which 
may be used merely as grain for feeding animals and 
poultry, or in the form of flour, of excellent quality, as 
food for mankind. 
I consider twenty bushels of this grain per acre a very 
low average crop, but it is by no means an item to be 
overlooked in calculating the value of the plant to Europe 
and to the world generally. 
