From these we see that the cane sugar gradually and rapidly 

 increased, while the glucose slowly decreased, from the time of 

 flowering to the maturity of the seed. During the latter part of 

 September, most of the cane was lodged by a very violent wind 

 and rain storm. The juice from the stalks that were lodged was 

 charged with a red coloring matter, the inside of the entire stalk 

 being in many cases of a bright red color. Several o£ the stalks 

 contained but a small portion of red coloring matter, but instead 

 had a peculiar yellow and watery appearance, and quite a disa- 

 greeable taste. The juices from these contained on an average 

 only 8 per cent, sugar, and 4.8 percent, glucose. 



EFFECT OF LEAVING- CANE CUT IN THE FIELD. 



A number of stalks still in good condition, the juice of which 

 contained 9.50 cane sugar and 8.25 glucose, were cut and left in 

 the field ten days, during almost constant rain. At the end of the 

 ten days the juice contained 5.98 cane sugar and 6.15 glucose. 

 Some Early Orange cane was also cut September 20, when the 

 juice contained 10.50 cane sugar and 4.95 glucose, and was left in 

 the field till November 2, when the juice contained 13.80 glucose, 

 while not a trace of cane sugar was present. These experiments 

 show conclusively that if cane is cut orginjured and left exposed 

 to rain, the destruction of cane sugar goes on very rapidly, being 

 in time entirely changed into glucose. The rapidity of the 

 change depends, of course, in great degree on the weather. 



