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CULTIVATION OF THE SUGAR CANE. 



alluded, was a light American one, and I found it to answer 

 the purpose admirably. The lightest and best subsoil 

 plough which I have seen is " Read^s subsoil pulveriser/* 

 by Stratton of Bristol. I have used both it and " Smith" 

 of Deanston^s subsoil plough, but the latter requires a 

 great strength of cattle to draw it, and although, when 

 understood, it is easily handled, yet its weight and resist- 

 ance render it much less generally serviceable than the 

 first named, which performs its work admirably and with- 

 out any undue exertion of the stock.* Of other agricul- 

 tural implements, as u hoe-harrows/* " cultivators," &c, 

 their superiority will always be in proportion to the sim- 

 plicity of their construction, as I have always found those 

 which are least complicated, the most efficient. 



* To all who desire to obtain information on the subject of ploughing, the 

 effect produced by ploughs of various construction, the care of stock, and 

 all other subjects connected with modern agriculture, I would recommend 

 the perusal of " Stephens's Book of the Farm," as the most complete and 

 valuable work on agriculture ever published, 



