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CANE FROM ‘SINGLE STALK SELECTIONS.’ 
Grown two years without additional selection. 
Rich Cane Seed. Poor Cane Seed. 
Date. Solids. | Sucrese. | Purity. Date. Solids. |Sucrose.| Purity. 
Nov. 9 = 18:0 16:0 88:9 Nov. 8 - | 17°6 15*5 88:1 
Nov. 8 - IT; 15°4 87°0 Nov. 8 - 16°8 18:5 80:3 
Nov.14 - ITI 15*8 89:5 Nov. 14 . 1755 14:5 82:8 
Nov.19 - 13-5 16°3 93:2 Nov.19 - 17*5 16:2 92°6 
Noy. 25 - 17°6 16°0 90°9 Noy. 25 - 17°9 15°8 88:3 
Dec. 6 - 18:8 17:0 90:4 Dec. 6 - 17°8 14:8 83:1 
Means - 17:8 16:0 89:9 Means - 1775 II 86*3 
« The gag sucrose of six samples from the plat planted with rich 
cape seed was 16'0 and the purity 89:9. The cane from the poor 
seed gave a sucrose of 15*1 and a purity of 86:3. The samples were 
taken in the same manner as in the other plats and, as will be noticed, 
give a more favourable showing than they did for seed selection. I wi 
not extend the figures as I did before, for their — must already 
be hg apparent that further discussion would be u 
* A most important point these two plats show i is that the higher 
sucrose from the rich eane seed is not an early forced maturity. The 
analyses extend up to December 6th, and there is as marked a differ- 
ence iu the latter ones as in the earlier. I cannot but believe then. 
no difference "e — — are, a rich cane will produce a 
better progeny t 
* Having tab ak the n that the sugar-cane can be improved by 
have been with small experiment Ix How can such work be done 
for hundreds of acres? This must be the true test of the utility of the 
results, for could not the large field profit by them they might as well 
have never been made. 
“ There are two possible ways, it seems to me at present, that the 
knowledge acquired by these experiments can be put to practical u use. 
The first of these is by systematically sampling the cane growing on 
different sections of the plantation, and planting the rithest for the 
ensuing crop. In this case, however, the conditions giving the richness 
are not perfectly known ; the soil, fertilizer applied, better drainage 
or cultivation may, one or all, have had an effect in giving the result, 
instead of an inherent ps in the cane itself, and that which is in 
reality poorer might be selected in one year’s work as the better. Ina 
number of years, ‘though, it is more than probable that a selection of 
this kind would be of 1 materia] benefit. ‘The return would, in any case, 
be slower than el method I will now call attention to. 
* A chemist can take ordinary unskilled white labourers and teach 
them to make the necessary Brix readings in a very short time, and 
by single stalk work I estimate, from the work done here, that in a 
month at least three acres could be planted with a high quo of seed, 
using only a single hand-mill to extract the juice. This work done 
