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stalk six inches apart in the row, but failed to get 

 a good stand, as the seed came up badly, from the 

 deep and irregular covering. Worked out same 

 as for corn, ploughing twice and hoeing once. I 

 determined to give the syrup-making a fair trial ; 

 consequently ordered a very complete horse- 

 power mill, with vertical iron rollers, that has 

 worked admirably, crushing out juice for eight 

 gallons of syrup per hour, worked by two mules, 

 with one hand to put in the cane and a boy to 

 drive. On the thirteenth of September, find- 

 ing the seed fully ripe, I had the fodder pulled 

 and the seed-heads cut. Yield of fodder per 

 acre, eleven hundred to thirteen hundred pounds. 

 Yield of seed per acre, twenty-five bushels of 

 thirty-six pounds to the bushel. First trial of 

 mill, seventy average canes gave twenty quarts 

 of juice ; six hundred and six average canes, 

 passed once through the rollers, gave thirty- 

 eight gallons one quart of juice ; passed a sec- 

 ond time through, gave two gallons of juice. 

 The forty gallons one quart gave eight gallons 

 of thick syrup. I carefully measured an eighth 

 of an acre having the best canes and the best 

 stand, another eighth having the poorest canes 

 and the poorest stand ; the result I give below, 

 the canes having passed once through the rollers : 



