AMBER CANE SUGAR. 



Sugar from the Early Amber Cane. 



FROM the close of the war (at which period it 

 was discovered in Minnesota) but little has 

 been accomplished with the early amber cane 

 from a sugar point of view. Experiments without 

 number have been made, and hundreds of gallons of 

 syrup manufactured, and it may be justly stated that 

 it is not from the amber cane we may look for a plant 

 qualified to produce our home Northern sugars. 



Government experiments have proved little or 

 nothing. Those of the Amherst Agricultural College 

 demonstrated the impossibility of any practical 

 results being realized. These were conducted by 

 Professor Goesmann, whose reputation as a chemist 

 is sufficient to warrant the accuracy of the results 

 obtained. They were made in August and September, 

 1878, and by closely examining them we find a pos- 

 sible maximum sugar of five per cent, in one case 

 only, one of four, and the other of three per cent. 

 The conclusions arrived at are the same as those our 

 correspondents have led us to believe. We quote in 

 consequence the following, which speaks for itself: 

 " A part of our cane, after being cut, was left upon 

 the field for about ten days before being ground and 

 pressed ; the remainder was cut without delay and 

 sent to the mill. Examinations of the juice obtained 

 from both of these lots of cane were made, and they 

 admit of no other explanation but that the best course 

 to pursue consists in grinding the matured cane as 



