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BULLETIN 486, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Among the immense number of seedlings that have been produced, 

 a goodly number have already proved of economic value and arc 

 now being grown extensively on sugar plantations. A number is 

 assigned by the originators to each of the seedlings tested, and to 

 this number is prefixed an initial denoting the country or place 

 in which the station is located. Thus we have the D 74 and the 

 D 95 varieties of sugar cane, now extensively grown in Louisiana, 

 which were originated hj the Royal Agricultural Society of British 

 Guiana, in Demerara, South America, and were introduced into 

 Louisiana by Dr. W. C. Stubbs in 1873. 



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Fig. 3. — Two varieties of sugar cane (crops equally large) on the same farm after 

 a storm : Upper. Palfrey cane, one of the old home varieties, badly lodged ; 

 lower, D 74 cane, standing erect. 



Both these varieties of cane on the rich alluvial lands along the 

 lower Mississippi and its tributary bayous generally yield both a bet- 

 ter tonnage and a crop of higher sugar content and have the added 

 advantage over the old home varieties of being more rigid and there- 

 fore not lodging so easily in storms, thus lessening the labor of 

 harvesting. This erect habit of growth is especially marked in the 

 D 74 cane. (Figs. 3 and 4.) Among the Louisiana planters these 



