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allow, and quite as thick as stover-corn. When 

 the panicles appear, or even before, it may be 

 cut either for soiliug or for drying, and the roots 

 will at once throw up another crop. 



13. If it is desired, the juice may be fer- 

 mented, like the juice of apples, being put into 

 casks at the mill, and treated like cider. 



14. The begass, or waste, may be dried and 

 used for fuel, or for making paper, or rotted 

 down for manure. 



15. If the storms should blow down the seed- 

 cane, no fears need be entertained, as it will 

 remain weeks in that condition without injury. 

 I must here caution all persons who grow this 

 cane against planting it in the vicinity of broom- 

 corn, Dourah-corn, or Guinea-corn ; for it readily 

 mixes with these plants, and it would render the 

 seed worthless for planting. 



I think I have sufficiently shown that the 

 Chinese Sugar-cane may be grown, both North 

 and South, with success, either for sugar and 

 syrup making, or fodder, or some of the many 

 other uses to which this wonderful plant is 

 adapted. It may be, and doubtless is true, that 

 the climate of the South is better adapted to the 

 production of sugar, inasmuch as there will be a 

 greater amount of crystallizable sugar obtained 



