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The names of the sixteen varieties are as follows : JYee-a-za-na, 

 Oo7n-se-a-7ia, Boom-vc-va-na^ Shla-goo-va, Shla-goon-dee^ Vhn- 

 bis-chu-a-pa, Ea-na-moo-dee^ Zim-moo-ma-na^ Zim-ha-za-na.^ 

 E-both-luj E thlo-sa, Boo-ee-a-na, Ea-ya-ma, Koom-ba-na, See-en- 

 gla-7ia, and E-en-gha. Tlie first four of these ase of quick 

 growth, and will produce one crop of sugar at the North ; the 

 others are suitable to the South, and some* of them will give two 

 full crops. 



For feeding to stock Mr. Wray says there are no crops possess- 

 ing an advantage over these imphees. They are fully equal to 

 Southern cane, and are greedily eaten by every description of 

 stock. He had fed his horses, cattle and pigs on them. The 

 idea laas been advanced by some in this country that the bogasses 

 (stalks which have been crushed for sugar making) would be good 

 feed for stock, but Mr. Wray had lost some animals from making 

 use of them, and on-opening their stomachs after death the fibrous 

 Sorsrho stalks were found to have formed into hard balls and 

 accumulated in such indigestible masses as to cause death. If, 

 however, the bagasses had been fed with the scum which is 

 removed from the boilers, this bad effect would not have been 

 experienced. If fed green, as are cured corn stalks, there can be 

 no more profitable or nutritious article employed, and for this 

 alone its cultivation would be profitable. These crushed stalks, 

 or bagasses, make an excellent paper, and Mr. Wray has samples 

 in England which are superior to straw paper. 



Judge Meigs desired to know if there was much value in the 

 seed. Mr. Wray said that for a feed for fowls there could be no 

 better, and that from his African Imphees very fine bread can be 

 made. The "Chinese variety is not so good for this purpose, 

 because of the bitter pellicle which surrounds the seed proper, 

 lying under the outer black hull, but he had a process for obviat- 

 ing this difficulty. The seed would have an immense value for 

 the manufactiu'e of starch. The amount practically obtainable is 

 forty-five per cent., and is more easy of extraction than that from 

 the farinaceous Mexican corn ; and from the ease of its manufac- 

 ture and the high price of corn, it is evident that tlie Imphee will 

 be cultivated to a considerable extent for this purp»se. 



The remarkable vitality of the plant is shown by a statement 

 made by Mr. Wray. He had a plantation of it on his estate in 

 Africa, whiclj he wished to remove to give place to a crop of 

 arrowroot. ■ The field was thoroughly plowed at the end of the 

 season, and the stumps removed ; but the few which escaped the 

 notice of his workmen shot up into great luxuriance of growth, 



