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raised a quantity of sugar, or sweet corn, for the 

 purpose of sugar-making, pinching off the fruit 

 as fast as it appeared — and thus forcing all the 

 secretions of the plant into the stalk. The 

 growth was very large, and the juice highly 

 charged with sugar, its strength indicating lOJ 

 degrees on Baume's saccharometer, being stronger 

 than the best Louisiana cane-juice, and, of 

 course, capable of giving more sugar per gallon ; 

 but, unfortunately, so few gallons per acre as 

 not to give a paying result. We made refined 

 sugar from these corn-stalks, and that year exhib- 

 ited at the American Institute several loaves of 

 corn-stalk sugar." 



I think I cannot more profitably occupy the 

 space than by continuing these reports from dif- 

 ferent parts of the country ; for by them each 

 one will be able to judge for himself whether we 

 have got in this cane a plant adapted to our 

 various latitudes. 



Extract from a statement of Joseph C. Ortk, of Illinois, 

 from Patent Office Report of 1855. 



' ' Profiting by the remark printed upon the 

 paper which contained the seeds, — ' good for 

 fodder, green or dry, and for making sugar,' — 

 I cut off a few stalks and offered them to my 



