LIST OF PLATES 



Frontispiece : Bourbon Cane. 

 I. Creole Cane - -.'.*! 

 II. Rose Bamboo Cane * - .; - - ,, - r 



III. Purple Bamboo Cane - 



IV. Striped Bamboo Cane - 

 V. White Tanna Cane 



VI. Striped Tanna Cane - 



VII. Black Tanna Cane 



VIII. Salangore Cane - '<: Wft - - i '.- * - 



IX. Port Mackay Cane 



X. Uba Cane 



XI. Irrigating Sugar Cane Seed in Hawaii - 



XII. Fowler Steam Plough Outfit 



Ox Plough at Work in Cuba - r' : - - 



XIII. Fordson Motor Tractors at Work in Tucuman 



XIV. Disc Harrow 



Spaulding Deep Tilling Plough - ;;- - 

 XV. A Java Cane Field ready for Planting - 

 XVI. 9 Some Diseases of Canes 

 XVII. ' Red Rot of Stem 

 XVIII. Pine Apple Disease 

 XIX. The Wheeler-Wilson Cane Loader 



Dumping from Cart to Railroad Car in Cuba - 

 XX. Ox Team with Cane Load 



Traction Engine transporting Cane 

 A Typical Cane Train in the Hawaiian Islands 

 XXI. Cane Hopper and Elevator 

 XXII. Unloading Cane with Hoist and Dump - 



XXIII. The Searby Shredder 



The Deerr Indicator - - 



XXIV. The Deerr Macerator 

 XXV. The Philippe Filter 



The Sweetland Leaf Filter 

 XXVI. The Kelly Filter Press 

 XXVII. Cooling Tower for Water in Cuba 



Spraying System for cooling Water in Cuba - 

 XXVIII. Appearance of Yeasts - 

 XXIX. Sporulation of Yeasts - 



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