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before. Dry, hot weather succeeded until the 25th of June ; afterwards, 

 alternations of hot and bright weather with frequent rains afforded ex- 

 cellent growth conditions until the 24th of August, when a term of 

 unusually low temperature began, the thermometer reaching a minimum 

 of 57 F. on the night of the 25th, and no really warm days were expe- 

 rienced until the first of September, by which time the canes of the first 

 planting had for the most part reached full maturity. 



The effects of the weather conditions upon the first series were: A 

 check to germination at the start, due to low temperature injuring all 

 the plots and destroying two of them entirely; a further injury by 

 drought, preventing germination of such seed as had not sprouted at 

 the outset and retarding growth generally, this evil being possibly in- 

 creased by the lack of cultivation. The average length of time required 

 by this series before the panicles appeared exceeded that of the second 

 series by forty two days ; very great improvement in all the plots by 

 hot, moist weather, the stand largely increasing by the starting up of 

 dormant seed. Agriculturally considered, this planting was far from 

 successful, and a crop of sorghum grown for sugar making under the 

 same conditions would have been a complete loss. 



Below are given the plats of the first series, showing the source and 

 juice analysis of the parent (1890) canes, best single stacks found in the 

 derived (1891) plats, and any notes of description which seem worth re- 

 cording. 



FIRST SERIES PLANTED FROM SINGLE HEADS FOR SEED SELECTION. 



Plat No. 1 (Early Orange). Derived from best single cane selected from Calumet 

 Plat B, 1890, cut on the one hundred and seventh day from planting. Juice of this 

 cane, serial No. 458, 1890: Sucrose, 15.35; purity, 75.69; glucose, .59; nonsugars, 

 4.34. Best single stalk of derivato plat, serial No. 284, 1891, cut on the one hundred 

 and fifty-fourth day: Sucrose, 16.85; purity, 80.97; glucose, .59; nonsugars, 3.37. 

 About 40 per cent stand was attained. Panicles fully developed by the one hundred 

 and twentieth day ; seed matured by the one hundred and forty-sixth. 



Plat No. 3 (Red Liberian). Derived from the best single cane selected from Calu- 

 met Plat 5 A, 1890, cut on the one hundred and thirty-fourth day from planting. 

 Juice analysis of this cane, serial No. 207, 1890: Sucrose, 14.20; purity, 71.53. Best 

 single stalk of derivate plat, serial No. 457, 1891, cut on its one hundred and sixty- 

 fourth day: Sucrose, 16.15; purity 74.73; glucose, 2.46; nonsugars, 3. Panicles 

 fully out by the one hundred and twentieth day ; seed hard by the one hundred and 

 fortieth day. This variety is to be discontinued at Calumet, having given in two 

 years' culture no canes of as high analysis as the parent (Kansas) stock, being too 

 low in purity to warrant further trial, and having nothing to recommend it in point 

 of size or form. 



Plat No. 5 (Link's Hybrid). Derived from the second best single cane selected from 

 Calumet Plat C, 1890, cut on the one hundred and thirty-fourth day from planting. 

 Juice analysis of this cane, serial No. 497, 1890: Sucrose, 15.10; purity, 79.97. Best 

 single stalk of derivate plat, serial No. 332, 1891, cut on the one hundred and fifty- 

 seventh day: Sucrose, 18.45 ; purity, 82.55; glucose, .74; nonsugars, 3.16. Panicles 

 for the most part developed by the one hundred and thirteenth day; seed hardening 

 by the one hundred and fortieth day. Stand of about 80 per cent secured. Notably 

 a variety prone to offshoots. 



