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climate of many regions of the United States, 

 should be made at the precise moment of the ap- 

 parent decadence of the culture of the sugar-cane 

 upon the plantations of the South. That this 

 may not result to the disadvantage of the import- 

 ant interests involved in these plantations, is not 

 only desired but believed by those who are fos- 

 tering the cultivation of the new plant ; for it 

 appears to be the accepted opinion, that, though 

 the latter may prosper in any locality in which 

 maize or Indian corn succeeds, yet the soil and 

 climate capable of producing the sugar-cane will 

 prove the best adapted of all to the sorgho 

 Sucre, and that it will hence flourish there in 

 its greatest perfection.'' 



It will be seen that, though it is claimed that 

 the cane will flourish best in the South, yet it is 

 freely allowed that it will do well wherever In- 

 dian corn will flourish. If any doubts still exist 

 in the mind of the reader, I hope to be able to 

 remove them, so far as possible, before I finish. 



I shall next give an article from Prof. J. J. 

 Mapes, of Newark, New Jersey, which appears 

 in the November number of the Working Farmer, 

 entitled "Refined Sugar from the Chinese Cane." 

 Prof. Mapes is known to be au fait in all such 



