SUGAR-CANE CULTURE FOR SIRUP PRODUCTION. 
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of plant cane on good Georgia or Florida farms. The average yields, 
as shown by the census reports, are much below these, showing that 
many farms and factories are not producing yields up to the normal 
for good, well-managed farms. 
STORING CANE FOR PLANTING. 
In localities subject to winter frosts, if the new plantings of cane 
are not made in the fall, planting the cane directly from the field 
as it is harvested, some means must be employed for storing the cane 
until time to plant it, which is usually in the spring. Two somewhat 
different modes of storing are in common use, viz, windrowing and 
banking. Practice also varies, some preferring to dig up the cane 
and store it with the rootstocks left on, while others, to save labor, 
Fig. 16. — Putting sugar cane in windrows in Louisiana. 
are content to cut the cane about even with the surface of the ground, 
thus sacrificing the short rootstock, which bears a large number of 
eyes. 
Windrowing is generally practiced on the large sugar plantations, 
like those in Louisiana, where large quantities of cane are to be 
stored in a relatively short time. (Fig. 16.) The ridge cultivation 
results in deep furrows being formed in the middles between rows 
during cultivation. The cane from two or three rows, cut off at the 
ground and without removing the foliage, is laid into one of the 
middles, overlapping in such a manner that the tops always cover 
the stalks previously laid down. The windrow thus formed is cov- 
ered with soil by the use of large plows, throwing about two furrows 
from each side over it. If the soil is cloddy or wet, a disk cultivator 
is sometimes driven over the windrows to smooth out the soil that 
