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three double boxes of seed which was fed to the pigs. I estimate the value 

 of the crop as follows: 



Dr. 



To interest on land $2 00 



half day's work plowing.. . 150 



dragging and marking 50 



two pounds seed 70 



planting 1 00 



hoeing 100 



cultivating 1 00 



stripping 00 



cutting and binding 3 00 



topping and hauling 10 30 



hauling fodder and feed . . 1 00 



4 barrels at 75c 3 00 



mating 170 gallons at 20c. . 34 00 



Wi 00 

 Balance 30 00 



$95 00 



Cr. 



By fodder $10 00 



170 gallons syrup at 50c . . 85 00 



$95 00 



M. O. MYRICK. 



[The following letter from H. W. Small & Co., Chicago, will certainly be 

 read with interest. It should be remembered that from the peculiar line of 

 business of this company — that of supplying the wholesale trade with syr- 

 ups and molasses — it is in a position unequalled by any other company in 

 the west to judge upon the true merits of the case:] 



Chicago, December 28, 1881. 

 Prof. W. A. Henky, Madison: 



Bear Sir — We have your favor of 24th, with simples of sugar and syrup 

 before us. You have obtained a remarkable yield from your experimental 

 one-fiftb acre. One thousand pounds of good brown sugar and eighty gal- 

 lons of syrup per acre would be a very profitable crop for any of our farmers, 

 and we read with very much interest your statement that the analysis of the 

 cane showed nearly kcice the quantity of sugar that you obtained; or, 

 in other words, that the processes for extracting the sugar from Amber cane 

 is so imperfectly understood, at present, even by our most scientific men, 

 that nearly one-half the yield is lost. Well, this only confirms our opinion 

 the more strongly that the profitable raising of Amber cane in the north, for 

 the manufacture of sugar and syrup or molasses, is no longer an experiment, 

 but an assured fact; and, although but just in its infancy, enough has been 

 already done to show that skill in its manufacture is the one great require- 

 ment. 



Now, we not only would not advise every farraer to rush in blindly 

 and plant a few quarter acres of Amber cane, but we would advise that they 



