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sugar-cane the past season. It was quite late 

 before he received the seed, so that it was not 

 planted until about the first of June. It was put 

 into hills, in a cabbage-field, where the cabbages 

 had failed. It received but little attention until 

 quite late in the autumn, after there had been 

 several frosts, so that the leaves were aU killed. 

 About the middle of October, Mr. Stone, at my 

 suggestion, expressed the juice from a number 

 of stalks, boiled it down, without using lime or 

 any other substance either to clarify or to neu- 

 tralize the acid, and obtained a beautiful article 

 of syrup, such as my own cane furnished. The 

 seed did not ripen well, on account of the lateness 

 of planting. The cane grew in this short time 

 to over ten feet in height. It will be seen by 

 this that the cane may be, if planted early in 

 the season, grown even in Massachusetts, so that 

 there would, ordinarily, be a whole month to 

 manufacture sugar or syrup. We also learn, by 

 this, that no extra amount of manure or labor 

 is necessary to raise the cane of good size. 



Mr. John A. Kenrick, also of Newton, raised 

 some of the sugar-cane. He started it in a hot- 

 bed, and then transplanted it into hills in the 

 field, where it grew to the height of eleven feet, 



