336 APPENDIX. 
Table of French weights and measures, referred to in the prece- 
ding and succeeding reports. 
Kilogramme, - - - -  2/bs.53 drachms. 
Hectare,- - - - -  -=- 2g acres. 
Gramme, - - - -  - 4 4r. avoirdupois. 
hiire). so be es ee = + 2D wine pints. 
Centimetre, -  - - - - 39-100 of an inch. 
Decalitre, - - - - - about 2 gallons. 
Metre, . - - . - 39 inches. 
REPORT 
Addressed to his Excellency the Minister of War, upon the Culture of the 
Sugar Sorgho, by M. Harpy, Director General of the Government 
Nursery at Hamma, in Algeria, Member of the Imperial Society of 
Acclimation. Translated for this work by H. 8S. Oxcort, of the 
Westchester Farm School, Mount Vernon, N. Y. 
(From “ StuGar CANE AND Sucar Maxine,” by C. F, Stansbury—A. O. Moore.) 
On the 18th of May last, I sowed plots of sorgho sucré, comprising 
a total area of about sixty-five square rods, (Eng.,) of a nearly uniform 
quality of soil. The ground had been deeply worked and fully man- 
ured. The seed was sown in drills eighty centimetres apart. When 
the young plants had hecome sufficiently strong, I thinned out, leaving 
them at thirty to thirty-five centimetres apart in the drill. The plan- 
tation received during the season three hoeings and three slight irriga- 
tions, which consisted in turning a small stream of water through an 
open trench running alongside each row. Not more than four hun- 
dred cubic metres of water were necessary to the hectare. At the 
last hoeing the dirt was drawn to the foot of the plants, in such man- 
ner as to form a slight hill, both for the purpose of protecting the 
plants against the wind and to favor the development of extra roots 
which spring from the stalk, as is the case with Indian corn. 
