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varieties of our canes. Such data, if intelligently kept and 
recorded, would, in the course of a very few years, result in con- 
siderable pecuniary gain to both miller and grower. The 
Pb te poem of varieties from seed can only be done scientifically 
r State supervision, and it is to be hoped the day is not far 
dient beum this will be recognized in this Colony, and a well- 
ese pas experiment station take this matter in hand. Till then 
r cane-grow st help themselves, as above &racenm never 
fomdhiing that yi little one discovers, added to that which 
another does, and so on, if carefully recorded and po for 
will be the mean a 
nd a 
effort on the part of c cane-growers materially by encouraging the 
growth of ech al rich in sugar, by paying a higher price for 
such cane, by analysing varieties for poras free of charge, and 
by encouraging them in every possible manne 
Mr. NN. and Professor d'Albuquerque give the ioo 
accou their * Report of experiments made on the exper 
etl "Relds, at Dodds Reformatory " (1897, pp. 26-29) :— 
“The experiment was made at the suggestion of Mr. Thiselton- 
Dyer, Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew, and is a repetition on 
a small scale of bela grege made in the years 1890, 1892, by 
Messrs. Thompson and Edson, at Calumet plantation, Louisiana. 
The object was 46 ascertain the possibility of increasing the 
average richness and purity of the juice of a given variety of 
r e,. j 
were found by the analysis to yield the richest and purest juice. 
* Accordingly, the lower half of each of a number of canes was 
average amount of available sugar, were planted in a plot by 
themselves, ae med - low the average by themselves; a plot was 
planted at the time in the ordinary way, that is, with 
cuttings taken tüdtetriminsidy from the ordinarily well grown 
canes. 
“Burke canes were used for this experiment. Thirty holes of 
each of these ide were reaped, and the results are recorded in 
the tables below 
“The plot of canes planted from ‘high’ seed cane yielded a 
juice of higher sucrose content a lower glucose content than the 
plot planted from ‘low’ seed can 
