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employs double-milling. Tl.e treatment of the juice is essentially that 

 described above. The Soledad estate is the property of Messrs. E. At- 

 kins & Co, of Boston. It is located on the Caunao River, about 15 

 miles from Cienfuegos. 



Monthly results of work on Soledad estate for year 1886. 



Above percentages are calculated upon 100 pounds of cane ground. 



Mr. Atkins is conducting a series of experiments to determine what 

 cane will give him a maximum output of sugar at the least cost. Such 

 experiments if made in Louisiana would probably prove very valuable. 



The following table gives the results of analyses of cane from exper- 

 imental plots : 



Analyses of canes from experimental plots. 



1 Sucrose in juice from 100 pounds cane. 



NOTK. Samples 1 and 2 from fields four years planted ; samples 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10, spring cane, 

 tni months planted ; samples 11 and 12, known as caua obscura field, eigbt years planted The sam- 

 ples 1 to 10 wore from river lands, 11 to 12 from side hill. 



