THE SUGAR-CANE. 
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in about four months. Indeed, they need not 
wait until the com is ripe, for it is good for 
eating even while it is young and green. 
THE SUGAR-CANE.— I. 
1. One day the children at a school in Kings- 
ton were seated in front of their teacher, who 
was telling them about sugar and the sugar- 
cane.. On the table near him were pieces of cane, 
and bottles holding sugar of different kinds and 
colours. 
2. In England the West Indies are sometimes 
called ^The land of sugar, rum, and spices'," the 
teacher said. " You will hear about the spices 
some day, but this afternoon we will talk about 
the sugar-cane, which most of you have seen 
growing." 
3. He let the children tell all that they knew, 
and what was fresh or hard to them he made 
plain and easy. I cannot tell all that was said, 
but I can tell you what the teacher wished them 
to learn. 
4. When a planter intends to have a field of 
canes, he plants rows of slips, or cuttings. These 
I he takes from the tops of growing canes, being 
{careful to choose only those that are strong and 
jhealthy. 
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