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length of the rows, a very good idea can be formed of the reiative 
quantity of cane. This is best expressed by giving the average weight 
per stalk. For the cane from poor seed this was 2°58 pounds, and for 
the cane from the rich seed 2:42 pounds, a crine: against the rich 
cane seed hile it may be that each yea e will have a return in 
quantity similar to this, I am at ome incihseü to think that the rich 
cane will in the end prove the larger 
“Tt is true that with sorghum aid "eite the medium-sized plant is 
the most satisfactory one to grow for sugar; yet I believe that it could 
not in the same way be said of these that the smaller or medium sized 
seed are as satisfactory for planting as the large ones, containing, as they 
would, a much greater amount of starch to be transformed into food 
for the young plantlets. So, I believe, it will be with mcos cane, and 
that the larger healthier stalks will, in a series of years, preduce the 
thriftiest canes, for I have continually noticed that in dió telootiónl the 
rich eanes are the larger and better stalks. In three of the samples 
he 
poor, the other four samples giving opposite results. Also it was notice- 
able that at one end of the rows one plat coutained the larger looking 
ane, and at the other sts the ther plat did, and the samples taken 
corresponded to this appearance. Certainly, from the limited trials 
e 
whether the rich cane seed will give a larger or a smaller cane, as the 
two years results have been contradictory in this particular. Such 
contradictions, however, are to expected in field agricultural experi- 
ments, and it will take the average results of a number of years to 
furnish ultimate proof. 
e now come to the most important part of the work in judging 
of its utility, viz., the analytical results. Seven sets of analyses were 
made, and then it had become so late in the fall that it was deemed 
expedient to mei the selections for planting, and as this took all the 
canes it stopped further analyses, The last analyses were made on 
November 12th. These samples were, with one exception, taken from 
directly opposite parts of the two rows and contained the same number 
of canes. The one sample taken differently was during the time the 
selections for fiber planting were being made, and consisted of every 
s ETER is in these analyses but one case, that of November 4th, where 
the cane from the poor seed could be said to be better for sugar-making 
than that from the rich seed. The average of the analyses shows the 
cane from the rich seed to be eight-tenths of one per cent. hight? 3 
sucrose and 2:3 points higher in purity. Now let us see what s 
difference in analyses means in sugar-making. diloving 10 per en 
ee. about the average in Louisiana, there would be a difference 
between the plats of 14:4 pounds of sugar in each ton of cane. This 
litino grees by two, because one plat was as much below the 
average cane seed as the other was above, will give 7:2 pounds of a 
.per ton as an increase in planting rich cane qt seed, instead of the 
average cane, had it been planted, 
* For a factory grinding 400 tons of cane per day this would add 
2,880 pounds of sugar to the cane of a day's working, and for a crop 
of 25,000 tons would give 180,000 additional pounds of sugar. 
