LIST OF PLATES 



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Frontispiece : Bourbon Cane. 



I. Creole Cane ---------- i 



II. Rose Bamboo Cane -------- i6 



III. Purple Bamboo Cane -------- 33 



IV. Striped Bamboo Cane -------- 37 



V. White Tanna Cane - -- 44 



VI. Striped Tanna Cane 48 



VII. Black Tanna Cane -------- 53 



VIII. Salangore Cane --------- 60 



IX. Port Mackay Cane -------- 65 



X. LT>a Cane ---------- So 



XI. Irrigating Sugar Cane Seed in Hawaii - - - - 112 



XII. Fowler Steam Plough Outfit - - - - - - 116 



Ox Plough at Work in Cuba - - - - - - 116 



XIII. Fordson Motor Tractors at Work in Tucuman - - 117 



XIV. Disc Harrow ---------- 124 



Spaulding Deep Tilling Plough - 124 



XV. A Java Cane Field ready for Planting - - - - 125 



XVI. Some Diseases of Canes ------- i_|_| 



XVII. Red Rot of Stem -------- 160 



XVIII. Pine Apple Disease -------- 161 



XIX. The \\'heeler-\^'il5on Cane Loader ----- 176 



Dumping from Cart to Railroad Car in Cuba - - - 176 



XX. Ox Team with Cane Load ------ 177 



Traction Engine transporting Cane _ - - _ 177 



A Typical Cane Train in the Hawaiian Islands - - 177 



XXI. Cane Hopper and Elevator ------ 184 



XXII. L^nloading Cane with Hoist and Dump - - - - 185 



XXIII. The Searby Shredder -------- 232 



The Deerr Indicator -------- 232 



XXIV. The Deerr Macerator -------- 233 



XXV. The Philippe Filter -------- 304 



The Sweetland Leaf Filter ------ 304 



XXVI. The Kelly Filter Press ------- 3^5 



XXVII. Cooling Tower for Water in Cuba ----- 368 



Spra\ang Sj'stem for cooling Water in Cuba - - - 368 

 XXVIII. Appearance of Yeasts --------576 



XXIX. Sporulation of Yeasts -------- 577 



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