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stalks at the foot. The cane is then thrown upon 

 carls and hauled to the mill, where it should at once 

 be ground, the juice expressed, boiled, granulated, and 

 put up for market. 



Slight frosts in autumn are beneficial, rather than 

 injurious, as, by deadening the leaves and tops, they 

 check vegetation, and stimulate, rather than retard, 

 the ripening of the plant. When severe frosts are 

 apprehended, it will justify cutting the cane as rapidly 

 as possible, and mattrcssing, as before described under 

 the the head of " the preservation of cane ." 



The mode of making sugar and molasses from the 

 true cane, has been reduced to such a science that a 

 description of the appliances and machinery necessary 

 for the operation, would require a book larger than 

 this MANUAL. It rather belongs to the arts than to 

 agriculture. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ASHES OP THE SUGAR CANE, BY STENTIOUSE, 



SMif-n, 44.13 



Phosphoric Acid 4.88 



Suli'lmrio Acid 7.74 



Lime 4.40 



Magnesia 11.90 



Potash 16.97 



Soda ~ 1.04 



Chloride of Sodium (salt) 7.2& 



From the above analysis, we can see the mineral 

 ingredients necessary to be returned to the soil. We 

 can now intelligently discuss the 



MANURES FOR CANES. 



If the alluvial bottoms of Louisiana and other fertile, 

 level lands, are properly managed, they will never 

 become exhausted by the cultivation of cane. Tired 

 of it they may be, as land is of any constantly recur- 

 ring crop ; but exhaustion will never be accomplished 



