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Was for raw sugar 4 cents PIT pound and molasses at Ho cents per gallon. 

 Consequently the- four best acres yielded reduced to a cash basis as 

 follows : 



This does not include the seed which has not been thrashed. 



WORKING SEASON. 



The company commenced breaking in its machinery on September 5 

 and closed on November 8, making fifty-two days. Twelve days in the 

 commencement of the season were consumed in training men to man- 

 age the new machinery. The working season was the most unfavorable 

 since 18SO. Frost occurred in the last week in September, but did little 

 damage. Ice one-half inch thick was found on October 15. The crop 

 at that time was growing beautifully and the sugar tests rising rapidly, 

 and the day following this freeze the leaves turned white and died. 



At that time we were working on the Kansas Orange fields. This 

 variety did not deteriorate for several days, but at the expiration of this 

 time it gradually declined until October 28, when the purity of the 

 juice was reduced so low that it did not warrant our working any longer 

 for sugar. During this period there were several frosts. 



Another effect of the ice on this variety of cane was to make it un- 

 able to withstand the repeated heavy gales of wind, which finally blew 

 it down and broke it badly. 



It was especially our desire to study the effects of frost on the differ- 

 ent varieties, and we were fully aware that we could at any time in- 

 crease our average sugar per acre by leaving this variety and working 

 the Late Orange. After October 28 we commenced cutting on the Late 

 Orange fields, which had withstood frost and ice in marked contrast 

 with the other cane. This variety stood the freezes and thaws with 

 very little change, and at the time of the closing of the house it was still 

 up to the average of the season in purity. 



The cane was worked after this date at intervals in the diffusion 

 battery until November 22. The cane brought in at this time was 

 frozen solidly, but the juice was in good condition. Warm weather hav- 

 ing intervened from the 22d to the 20th the cane was sampled and 

 tested on November 20 with the intention of making a run for sugar 



