PRODUCTION AND VALUE. ’ 22.7 
from the time of sowing the seed until it arrives at ma- 
turity; and it will rattoon twice or three times after- 
wards, at intervals of three months between each cutting, 
provided, of course, that the warm weather permits their 
continued rattooning. 
2. It is much more juicy than the generalty of sugar 
canes, and contains far less woody fiber, which does not 
materially increase in the rattoons. 
3. Fine, average imphee juice, contains fifteen per cent. 
of sugar. 
4. A good average crop of imphee stalks or canes will 
weigh twenty-five tons per acre. 
5. Imphee is produced from the seed; therefore, no 
deterioration can occur, as in the sugar cane; and the 
seed may be sown by means of a drill. 
6. It will yield a crop of rattoons six to seven months 
from the time of the seed being first sown, being, there- 
fore, two crops in that space of time; and will continue 
rattooning, if the seasons are favorable. e 
All these points I have abundantly proved to be cor- 
rect; and, when they are acknowledged by the world at 
large to be really true, what, may I ask, will become of 
the sugar cane? 
What tropical planter will eventually refuse to lessen 
his field risks arising from the casualties I have named, 
and simplify his cultivation, knowing, at the same time, 
that his crops come to bear a money value in the market 
in the short space of three to four months? 
I venture to think that he will, of necessity, be com- 
pelled to adopt the imphee and discard the sugar cane, 
as a mere matter of self preservation; for, although in 
