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and twenty-third day: Sucrose, 17.60; purity, 84.65. Best single stalk of derivate 

 plat, Serial No. 558, 1891, cut 011 the one hundred and fifth day: Sucrose, 19.15; 

 purity, 83.12. Panicles fully out by the sixty-eighth day ; seed hardened by the 

 ninety-third day. Seed scanty, but more produced than in plats 7 to 39 of same 

 variety. This plat was planted from a cane of very high purity, with the intent of 

 making a special effort to breed a strain having that characteristic. The fact that 

 66.7per cent of all the canes analyzed in this plat showed purity of 80 per center 

 above (the lowest being 76.9) is sufficient comment upon one phase of artificial 

 selection. 



Plat No. 10 (Link's Hybrid). Derived from the second choice of two single heads 

 grown at Sterling, Kaiis., in 1890, and received from Mr. A. A. Deuton. Juice anal- 

 ysis of the parent cane labeled, "Lot No. 60," Serial No. 11996, 1890: Sucrose, 18.25; . 

 purity, 78.05. Best single stalk of derivate plat, Serial No. 597, 1891, cut on the one 

 hundred and ninth day: Sucrose, 17.15; purity, 80.06; glucose, 0.93 ; nonsugars, 3.34. 

 Panicles fully out by the sixty-eighth day ; seed brittle by the ninety-third day. 

 Canes not very regular in height or size but type of panicle uniform. A heavy seed- 

 bearing variety. 



Plat No. 12 ( Ulehlana). Derived from the second best cane selected from Calumet 

 Plat No. 18, 1890. Juice analysis of this cane, Serial No. 334, 1890, cut on its one 

 hundred and forty-seventh day : Sucrose, 14.14; purity, 73.24. Best single stalk of 

 derivate plat, Serial No. 900, 1891, cut on the one hundred and thirty-first day: Su- 

 crose, 16.15; purity, 77.16; glucose, 2.07; nonsugars, 2.74 (apparently not a mature 

 cane). Panicles fully out by the seventy-sixth day; seed hardening by the one 

 hundred and twentieth day. Canes as a rule of moderately large size and of very 

 uniform type and development. 



Plat No. 14 (Improved Orange}. Derived from the best single cane selected from 

 Calumet Plat, No. 8, 1890. Juice analysis of this cane, Serial No. 75, 1890, cut on its 

 one hundred and twenty-seventh day: Sucrose, 17.10; purity, 77.46. Best single 

 stalk of derivate plat, Serial No. 560, 1891, cut on the one hundred and fifth day: 

 Sucrose, 17.80; purity, 80.84. Panicles all fully out by the seventy-sixth day, some 

 appearing, however, eight days earlier. Seed hard to brittle by the ninety-third 

 day. Stand not satisfactory and canes of rather small size. 



Plat No. 16 (Planter's Friend). Derived from the best single cane selected from 

 Calumet Plat No. 17, 1890. Juice analysis of this cane, Serial No. 216, 1890, cut on 

 the one hundred and thirty-fourth day: Sucrose, 17.65; purity, 77.92. Best single 

 stalk of derivate plat, Serial No. 630, 1891, cut on the one hundred and twelfth day: 

 Sucrose, 17.00; purity, 77.87; glucose, 1.42; uonsugars, 3.41. Panicles all fully out 

 by the sixty-eighth day, seed hardening by the one hundred and twentieth day. 

 This plat was the poorest in stand of the second series. Canes slender and greatly 

 damaged by worms when about 15 inches tall, never recovering entirely. Type of 

 heads not uniform. 



Plat No. IS (Late Orange). Derived from the best single cane selected from Calu- 

 met Plat No. 6, 1890. Juice analysis of this cane, Serial No. 2, 1890, cut on its one 

 hundred and twenty-first day : Sucrose, 16.60; purity, 79.35; glucose, 2.19; nonsugars, 

 2.13. Best single stalk of derivate plat, Serial No. 836, 1891, cut on the one hundred 

 and twenty-eighth day: Sucrose, 17.00; purity, 80.68; glucose, 1.64; nonsugars 2.35. 

 Panicles fully out by the sixty-eighth day; seed hard by the one hundred and tenth 

 day. Slender canes of uniform type. 



Plat No. 20 (Colman Cane). Derived from the third choice single cane, selected 

 from Calumet Plat No. 16, 1890. Juice analysis of this cane, Serial No. 301, 1890, 

 cut on the eighty-fourth day: Sucrose, 16.75; purity, 78.93. Best single stalk of 

 derivate plat, Serial No. 827, 1891, cut on the one hundred and twenty -eighth day: 

 Sucrose, 16.85 ; purity, 81.28 ; glucose, 1.06; nonsugars, 2.82. Panicles fully out by the 

 sixty-eighth day; seed hardening by the ninety-third day. Very short, slender 

 canes, but perfectly true to type of the variety otherwise. This plat was originally 



