VALUE OF DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE STALK, ETC. 237 



made to ascertain whether such a course was advisable, m fact, 

 whether it did not involve a large waste of sugar. Since, in the ex- 

 periments above recorded, the stalks were divided, as nearly as jxtssi- 

 ble into halves by weight, it might still be true that the butts of the 

 cane were practically worthless ; therefore, in the following experi- 

 ments, the stalks were cut as low down as possible, and were divided 

 into butts, middle, and tops, the analysis of each of which appears in 

 the following table. 



In each experiment 27 or 29 canes were taken. In the one case the 

 seed was hard, and in the other in dough. In the former, each cane was 

 divided in about equal parts by length into butt, middle, and top: and, 

 in the latter case, the portion called butt was such portion as might na- 

 turally I)e left upon the field if the crop should be cut at the second 

 or third j :)int. It will be seen that, in this latter ease, the relation of 

 butt to middle and top was in length as 1 to 8, and in weight of strip- 

 ped stalk as 1 to 4.6 : 



ANALYSES OF JUICES FROM BCTT, MIDDLE, AXD TOP, OF SOROnCM STALKS. 



Varietv. 



Earlv Amber 



... do 



... do 



do 



Wliite Liberian 



do 



do 



do 



Hard.. 27 Riitt 



do . . 27 Middle 



do 27 Top 



do . 27 Entire cane 

 Dough 29 Butt 



do . -Jfl Middle 



. do] 29 Top 



do . . l20;Entire cane 

 I I 





8 6S 

 7 94 

 4 22 



20 &1 

 3 .51 

 8.73 

 7 S-? 



19.77 



5 2-5 60.46 1 15 

 4 80l61 211 00 

 2 4SJ.58 79 82 

 12.59,60 4111 a5 



1 91 54 43| 

 5 13i5S 80| 

 4 40|.59 23. 

 11 501 58 19 



10 27 

 10 77 

 n 3S 



10 92 

 12 65 



11 61 

 11 82 



SSI 12.04 



I n 



3 Oil 10 53 

 3 03; 10 .>4 

 3 38 11 10 



3 34 



4 07 



3 84 



4 47, 



3.28, 



10 61 

 13 09 

 12 14 

 12 09 

 12.28 



6 11 

 6.74 



7 13 



6 53 



7 73 

 6 86 

 6 62 



From the above table it will be seen that there was practically very 

 little difference in the juice obtained from butts, middles, or tops, either 

 in the amount expressed by the mill or in its composition. It will be 

 also observed that, in the maturer cane, the' juice from the butts was in 

 its per cent of sucrose and available sugar slightly less than that fn.m 

 the middle, while that from the tops was best of all. In the cane, how- 

 ever, the seed of whicli was in the dough, exactly the reverse was true, 

 the juice from the butts being the best of all. It is, therefore, safe to 

 say, that the crop should be cut as near the roots as possible, whether 

 intended for sujrar or svrup, since, as will be seen, the butts, tliough 

 only about 9 inches long, equaled about one-fifth the weight of the 

 cane. 



