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this new article, I think it well worth a fair trial, 

 '' and hope that none will be ready to write it 

 a humbug until they shall have tested its merits." 

 " We have repeatedly called the attention of 

 our readers," says the Charleston Mercury^ "to 

 the value of the Chinese sugar-cane, and are 

 therefore greatly rejoiced to find that the article 

 has fallen into the hands of so scientific and 

 careful an experimenter as Ex- Gov. Hammond, 

 who will be widely recognized as one of the 

 highest authorities in Southern agriculture. We 

 copy below a carefully considered report of his 

 experiments with the Chinese sugar-cane, pre- 

 pared for an agricultural society in his own 

 neighborhood, and furnished for publication to 

 the Barnwell Sentinel. It wdll commend itself 

 to the attention of the planters of the state. 

 There can be no doubt that the sugar-millet is 

 destined to prove an important addition to the 

 resources and comforts of the plantation." 



" Report of an experiment in making syrup from the Chinese 

 sugar-cane, or sugar-millet, made to the Beech Island Far- 

 mer's Club, August 2d, 1856. By Hon. J. H. Hammond, 

 of South Carolina. 



*'Oae of our members, Mr. Redmond, of the 

 Southern Cultivator, distributed among us, last 



