unless all your conditions are quite favourable." 

 Experiments with a small plant and carefully kept 

 records will show what yields can be expected and 

 what canes do best in each case. But a good deal 

 more wants to be known on these points and above 

 all about future economic conditions before launch- 

 ing out on a large scale. 



Above all, remember that there is no other 

 branch of Agriculture in which Combination and 

 Co-operation are most essential, or in which they 

 meet with a higher reward. 



" A." 



(Some notes of varieties and yields at Kiboko varieties 

 Flats, Donyo Sabuk. No fertilisers used.) and yields. 



There are some 9 varieties on trial. Of these none 

 has so far given better results than the Native Red, 

 which has given close on 50 tons of canes ready for 

 milling per acre. The plot which gave this figure 

 was by no means a picked one, in fact nearly a 

 quarter of it was quite poor. 



A Ribbon cane from Mazeras is a very nice quick 

 growing cane with many good points, but not such 

 a heavy yielder as the above. 



A cane called No. 33 which we imported from 

 Natal promises very well. 



The Natal Uba cane is yielding heavily, but has 

 a tendency to split — possibly it has had more water 

 than it wants. The plot we have milled was too 

 small to be worth calculating yield per acre from. 



Of the W. Indian seedlings received from the 

 Agricultural Department, the most promising is the 

 Seely Seedling. But we have not yet enough of 

 these canes for any milling trials. 



The juices analysed by the Government Analyst 

 have proved rich — giving from 18% up to 20% 

 sucrose. 



We have as yet no Laboratory figures of per- 

 centage of sucrose to weight of canes. But the 



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