THE LITERATURE OE THE CANE. 



The development of the scientific study of the cane only dates back a 

 generation ; this must be attributed to its decentralized position, and to the 

 confinement of its growth to districts remote from the older centres of 

 civilization ; nevertheless, a voluminous and polyglot literature has now 

 accumulated. 



The earliest modernized treatise is that due to Wray, and published under 

 the title of the Practical Sugar Planter, in 1848; this deals with practice in 

 the West Indies and the Straits Settlements. Eeynoso's Enmyo sobre el cultivo 

 de la cana de azucar was published in 1865, and criticises Cuban practice. In 

 the same year Icery's Recherches t>ur le Jus de la Canne d Sucre, the result of his 

 Mauritian experiences, appeared. Twenty years later three other notable 

 French treatises were issued: Delteil's Le Canne d Sucre (1884) gives a 

 succinct account of the practices in Mauritius and Reunion ; Basset's Guide du 

 Planteur des Cannes (1889) is of the nature of a general treatise on agriculture 

 specialized with regard to cane planting; and Boname's Culture de la Canne d Sucre 

 d Guadeloupe (1888) contains the result of several years' experimental work, 

 and is remarkable for a very complete detailed balance-sheet of the plant food 

 material taken up by successive crops of cane. 



Ten years later a German text book by Kriiger, Das Zuckerrohr und seine 

 Kuliur, collated the earlier results of the Java * Proef Stations,' and described 

 in great detail Javanese practice. The conditions in Louisiana have been 

 described by Stubbs in Sugar Cane (1897). The Egyptian industry has 

 been discussed by Tiemann in The Sugar Cane in Egypt (1903); and finally 

 Sedgwick in Relating to the Sugar Industry in Peru (1904) has given an. 

 account of the processes there followed. 



Of the increasing amount of recorded experimental results appearing within 

 the past twenty years in the English periodical journals, and especially in the 

 International Sugar Journal, attention may be directed to the papers of 

 Harrison, dealing especially with seedling canes, with manures, and with soils, 

 and to the work which has been done by Watts and Bovell on kindred matter, 

 and by Howard and Lewton-Brain on the pathology of the cane. In the 

 English Orient a not unnoteworthy feature is the publication of papers on the 

 sugar cane by several natives of India. 



The United States are represented by records of work done at the Louisiana 

 Experiment Station, and at that of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association; 

 and in this connection mention should be made of the work of C. A. Browne, 

 dealing with manufacture and analysis, and of that in Hawaii concerned with 

 agriculture and irrigation, initiated by Maxwell, and continued by Blouin and 

 Eckart. A more recent phase of the Hawaiian work, and one referred to at 



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