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as before, except I boiled it more, and then set 

 it away in a strainer to drain ; and it grained 

 tolerably well, though the sugar was of rather 

 dark color. I tried the juice for coloring, as I 

 have before said, with indifferent success. In 

 addition to this, I used the seed-cane stalks and 

 leaves for fodder ; cut up the stalks and fed 

 to horses, cows, and swine, and they would eat 

 it with the greatest avidity, even like shelled 

 corn. This ended my experiments with the 

 cane. 



I now propose to give the results of experi- 

 ments that have been tried by others in different 

 parts of the country. And first among them 

 stands Richard Peters, Esq., of Atlanta, Geor- 

 gia, who has tested it more fully than any other 

 man, so far as I know% in the United States. 

 He says: ''I considered it a 'humbug' until 

 my children, towards fall, made the discovery 

 of its being to their taste equal to the true 

 sugar-cane. This year I planted one patch April 

 fifteenth, another May eighteenth, on land that 

 would produce, during a ' seasonable ' year, forty 

 bushels of corn per acre, and this year not over 

 twenty bushels. Seed sown carelessly in drills, 

 three feet apart, covered with a one-horse 

 plough, intending to ' chop out ' to a stand of one 



