62 THE CHINESE SUGAR-CANE. 



leghany County, Md., a correspondent writes for 

 the May number of the American Farmer : 



" * I think it well adapted to our mountainous 

 country, and promises to be more valuable than 

 any other article we can grow for provender. I 

 believe it will produce six or eight tons of dried 

 provender to the acre.' The present writer has 

 met many intelligent and enterprising farmers of 

 Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey, 

 and New York, in attendance at the late National 

 Fair at Philadelphia. Many of them had wit- 

 nessed its growth in their respective states with 

 entire success. One gentleman of New Jersey 

 had grown a half-acre of the cane this season. 

 It has been successfully grown in Illinois, also ; 

 and one gallon of the juice is said to have yielded, 

 by boiling, a quart of syrup of good quality. 

 There is every reason to conclude that the cane 

 may be easily and successfully grown in all parts 

 of our country. 



^' Culture. — While the seed remains in the 

 hands of the few, and commands a price too 

 high to permit a waste, it should be planted for 

 one season with good distance, that the seed crop 

 as well as the cane may attain their highest state 

 of development. I would recommend that the 

 rows should be three, or even four feet apart, 



