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one cane with another any given section could be used, provided this 
section only was used in all the tests. ac on this knowledge 
ve used in our selection the butt quarter ofthe cane, and while this 
cane when the caue tested all comes from one plat. I have hundreds 
of analyses on my books at usd which it would be but an incum- 
brance to print here, showing without exception, that under suc 
conditions a high per cent. solids invariably means a correspondingly 
high sucrose, and, in a vast majority of cases, a higher purity than the 
lower solids. The average per cent. solids of the richer canes planted 
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was 19:5, an the poorer 17:2, a difference of It was a note- 
worthy fact that nearly all the richer canes were also the larger ones, 
and the joints were longer than in the canes. This would have, 
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the poor canes, and so Showd have given a feu number of canes, but 
from some cause it did no 
ANALYSES OF CANES FROM SINGLE STALK SELECTION. 
Rich Cane Seed. Poor Cane Seed. 
Date. Solids. | Sucrose.| Purity. Date. | Solids. Gare: | Purity. 
Oct. 24 - 17:0 14-0 82-3 Oct. 24 - | 16:6. | 1372 79*5 
Nov. 1 - 17:5 15:2 86:9 Nov. 1- eel? 1 |--13*6 78:3 
Nov. 5 - Hi 13:9 81: Nov. 4 - | 16*6 ;|-193:9 83:7 
Now, $7 ^ 16:4 13:4 81:7 Nov 7 - | 16:0 13:0 81:2 
Nov. 8. - 16:3 13:2 81: Nov. 8 i 15:1 12:8 81:5 
Nov.11 - 16:1 13°1 81:4 Nov. 11 - 15:9 [ 14 5 79:3 
Nov.12 - 16:6 14:3 86:2 Nov. 12 - 16:5 | 13:3 80°6 
Means -| 16°7 | 13:9 83:2 Means - | 16:2 | 13°1 80:9 
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have given their progeny a little the better start, as there were 371 
mother canes against 350 for the poor canes, and this slight advan 
in the number of canes continued into August, but at time of h 
amount of canes in each piat was almost identical, the plat from rich 
seed having 875 canes against 870 i in the other. Fourteen of the canes 
in the rich seed plat died before E oom A and seven in the 
poor seed plat. Tn point of arg of canes grown or those lost Tite 
reaching maturity no preference can be given to either plat. 
“I will now call itin w the relative amount of cane from the 
two plats. It wil remembered that last year, while no actual weights 
were made, it was remarked that the cane from the rich seed gave a 
larger, healthier-looking stalk, this D 80 doma pronounced that there 
was no mistaking it. is present yea the samples brought in 
were weighed, and as the same numbe E canes were taken from each 
plat at every sampling, and bte samples extended through the whole 
