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no estate in the Province is Yuba receiving the 

 cultivation it properly requires. It deiuands free 

 drainage and a permanent water-level at some 

 distance below the surface to permit of free scope 

 for its habit of deep rooting. On the other hand, 

 the Yuba school have probably not attached 

 sullicient importance to the fact that nmch of 

 the sugar land is heavier than that of Natal, 

 is capable of being irrigated, and can support 

 heavier canes. It is a rather diilicult cane to 

 establish, being of slow growth as compared 

 with Green Natal, Lusier, and others of that 

 type. It requires, in Niital, from about twenty 

 months to mature and four or live weedings 

 before it closes the lines, which are as a rule 

 3 feet 6 inches apart. It is planted with the 

 first rains in October or November by laying 

 pieces of cane, each having two or more eyes, 

 in trenches 10 to 15 inches deep and V-shaped 

 in section, and covering with soil to a depth of 

 2 to 3 inches. It is left to grow until February, 

 when it is earthed up. From fifty to seventy sticks 

 of cane per stool have been cut, and the return 

 of cane per acre has been known in fertile land 

 to reach 70 tons. On soil not too moist its 

 saccharine content is very high as compared 

 with other types, while its prolific ratooning quali- 

 ties make its subsequent crops very reasonable 



