THE CHINESE 



clearest syrup by simply 

 without lime or other clarifi( 

 requisite to neutralize a portion' 

 the juice : the true proportion must 

 mined by well-conducted experiments. The cost 

 of making the syrup in upper Georgia, in my 

 opinion, will not exceed ten to fifteen cents per 

 gallon. This I shall be able to test, another sea- 

 son, by planting and working up fifty acres of 

 the cane. I am satisfied that this plant will 

 enable every farmer and planter in the Southern 

 States to make at home all the syrup required for 

 family use ; and I believe our chemists will soon 

 teach us how to convert the syrup into sugar for 

 export, as -one of the staples of our favored 

 clime. Obtaining such unlooked for success with 

 the Chinese sugar-cane, I concluded to try our 

 common corn. From a 'new ground,' planted 

 three feet by three, one stalk to a hill, a week 

 beyond the roasting stage, I selected thirty 

 stalks. 



