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syrup than that made the day before. In these 

 boilings I mixed with the cold juice a tea-spoonful 

 of lime-water, of the consistency of cream, for 

 every five gallons. These selected canes grew 

 on the best spot on the patch, and where corn 

 probably might have been produced the present 

 season at the rate of twenty bushels to the acre. 

 They were one inch in diameter at the largest 

 end, and seven and a half feet long after cutting 

 off the head and the foot of the stem. After 

 this I cut down all the inferior cane, and cured 

 it for forage. 



*' On the 28th of July, two of the members of 

 the club, being at my house, remained to see the 

 result of pressing and boiling four hundred canes 

 I had cut and stripped. Each of us selected ten 

 canes, and put them through the press eight 

 times — the result being as before, about three 

 quarts for every ten canes. But even after the 

 pressure juice could be wrung from the canes by 

 the hand, and we agreed that at least one fourth 

 of it, and that the best, remained in the cane — 

 so inefficient was my mill. The rest of the cane 

 I ordered should be pressed six times ; but we 

 did not ourselves remain to see it done, nor did 

 we count the 400 canes. The yield of the 

 whole, however, was thirty-seven and one half 



