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hundred and eighty thousand pounds of sugar at - cents per pound is 
worth $9,000, and $9,000 would pay for 2,000 tons of cane at the pri 
of $4°50 per ton, and 2,000 re are nearly due Crelth of the entire 
erop. "his, it must be born mind, is the result of one year's 
selection. ‘There is still another ae value in the cane from the rich 
seed of which it is more difficult to give the exact value; this is the 
higher purity of 2:3. We know that a high purity is more desirable 
than a low one, but no one yet has been able to tell what a rise of a 
of the juice from the rich cane seed we will have pn sucrose as given 
in the table of analyses for the cane from rich seed a 
difference of four-tenths of one per cent. of sucrose due to purity alone. 
Halving this for the same reason as given before we would get two- 
tenths of one per cent. extra sucrose over the average, or 3*6 pounds 
per ton. This then should be added to the actual gain in sucrose made, 
aside from the question of purity, and would give instead of the 7: 2 
pounds, 10°8 pounds additional sugar per ton of cane. Carrying this 
out in figures the same way as before we would have for a day’s work 
of 400 tons an increase of 4,320 pounds of sugar, and on a crop gr 
25,000 tons 270,000 pounds. This, at five cents per pound, amounts 
13,500 and would at the rate given before buy 3,000 tons of cane, 
which is but little less shan one-eighth of the entire crop. Expressing 
this gain in another way it would give an abundant amount of money 
pay the sugar-house labour for manufacturing the This result 
was obtained from planting canes the av s per cent. solids of whose 
juices 3 points, thus ing t 
ere e ric ter than 
the average would have been by 1°15 per cent. It is undoubtedly a 
remarkable showing. 
ORIGINAL SEED SELECTION Work. 
* We turn now to the other phase of our subject in which one year 
had intervened without selection siuce M original selection was made. 
As explained, this was because the cane was too small to analyse a 
part and still have some left for cw mi It will be seen then that the 
a 
might have given. The results, however, should be expected to be very 
interesting in having a bearing on the gredi ion of the stability of an 
improvement once made. This will of course be one of the most 
important phases of the subject, e odi a improvement made 
revert to the rag state after one year, das work would be in vain, 
as enough cane cannot be selected in one year to be of any great value. 
“ The first year’s work mo these me ctn a difference of three- 
tenths of one per cent. of sucrose betw: em and of 2:1 points in 
purity. "This of itself was a a'debided hafordcienl but as the cane was 
so small I placed no great reliance in the results, thinking that an 
accidental cause might have occasioned it. But during the present year 
the cane from the id these plats furnished grew excellently and was 
well cared for, so we are thus given an excellent means of judging what 
one year's selection w i. do under continued propagation.’ 
