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of it has been cut three times, and is growing up 

 finely, while the remainder has ripened its seed, 

 and will yield a full crop of excellent fodder 

 after the present stalks are cut off at the ground 

 and crushed for syrup, or fed out to our stock. 



" So much for its introduction into this sec- 

 tion, and its history among us thus far. It is 

 our deliberate opinion, that for 'soiling,' — cut- 

 ting green, repeatedly, — for the production of 

 syrup, sugar, cider or wine, alcohol, fodder, and 

 grain, at the same time, it will be found inval- 

 uable to the South, and that no plant of recent 

 introduction among us can at all compare with 

 if It will be seen by the above that the cane 

 will produce, as I supposed, more than one crop 

 of fodder from the same roots, even in the North- 

 ern States, and three or four in the Southern. In 

 this, as in other respects, it may prove more 

 valuable to the South than the North. But, after 

 giving some more testimony from the South, we 

 shall give some from the more Northern States. 



Dr. Battey, to whom reference has been 

 made on a former page, writes as follows to the 

 Southern Cultivator, in reply to inquiries that 

 had been made of him : ''I cheerfully com- 

 ply with your request for information on the sub- 

 ject of my observations and experiments on the 



