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in the great majority of cases, the planters’ experiments 
proved not only costly but unsatisfa€tory in the extreme. 
Some of us will doubtless recolleét the times when Mr. 
A. would plant a few acres of Salangor canes in the 
hopes of getting better field returns and richer cane juice ; 
how these Salangor in some years flourished and 
raised hopes of heavy returns of sugar; how in others 
they unaccountably languished; but how, whether they 
flourished or languished, one thing invariably charac- 
terised them—miserably poor juice and consequent 
loss of money. Or again mislead by their size plan- 
ters grew a few acres of the Elephant cane, or of 
the Po-a-ole under one or other of its synonyms ; 
results the same,—juice of low saccharine strength some- 
times less than 1 Ib of sucrose to the gallon, loss of 
money and time to the planters, and of faith in attempt- 
ing to improve his returns by planting improved varieties ; 
all of which would have been saved if to the aid of the 
purely botanical experiments theassistance had been called 
of the chemist and of the scientific agricultural expert. 
But in this colony and in Barbados from the com- 
mencements of the experiments with varieties different 
systems were adopted. Here systematic analyses were 
made each year and published in either the report of the 
Government Laboratory or in that of the Botanic Gar- 
dens, and as I| have already pointed out, these analyses 
were the first published showing the aétually truecompo- 
sition of sugar canes. Until 1888 only the composition of 
the canes were determined, but in that year and since the 
yield per acre of each variety has been ascertained, and 
we now have recorded and published the complete results 
of nine crops. In Barbados, the varieties under examina- 
