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maturity ; and, after operations were commenced, breakages and acci- 
dents caused great confusion in the work, and fatal delays. Besides this, 
the canes were grown upon a reclaimed swamp, thoroughly drained, 
and so rich in soluble saline matters, that the crop of corn on an ad- 
jacent lot was, on one measured acre, one hundred and eight bushels. 
Those who have read my remarks upon the pernicious influence upon 
the crystallization of sugar, of soluble mincral matters taken up by 
the cane juice, will not be surprised to learn that, although the train 
worked in the most satisfactory manner, and the boiling was superin- 
tended by a negro sugar maker from Florida, no crystallization of im- 
phee juice could be obtained. 
Mr. Wray found that the proportion of salts of iron was so great 
in the juice, that the single trial we made with nut galls gave us a 
liquid nearly as black as ink. Suffice it to say that the sugar was not 
made: but, as will be seen subsequently, it was not because crystal- 
lized sugar does not exist in the imphee. | 
Governor Hammond, failing to produce sugar, turned his whole at- 
tention to the manufacture of syrup; of which he made from the 
imphee exactly three thousand gallons, which will be entirely con- 
sumed on his own estate. 
With Governor Hammond and Mr. Wray I frequently tested the 
juice by the saccharometer. In one case the juice of the Boo-e-a-na 
I found to be 10}° Beaume, which it will be remembered indicates no 
less than nineteon per cent. of sugar in the juice. I am convinced 
that on favorable soils, and in suitable climates, the juice of the im- 
phee will mark nearly if not quite as high a saccharine richness as the 
Saccharum officinarum, or tropical sugar cane. 
Judging from my observation, the imphee is more succulent than 
the sorgho. An experiment was made with ten stalks each of sorgho 
and imphee, to test the respective quantities of juice. The result was 
that the imphee gave sixteen pints, or two gallons; sorgho gave 
eleven pints; a very large per centage in favor of imphee. Imphee 
starts off more rapidly in its spring growth, and will be valuable on 
that account for northern latitudes. Many of the imphees have also 
a larger stalk than the sorgho, and smalier seed heads, or panicles, and 
