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BULLETIN 486, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Among the immense number of seedlings that have been produced, 
a goodly number have already proved of economic value and are 
now being grown extensively on sugar plantations. A number is 
assigned by the originators to each of the seedlings tested, and to 
this number is prefixed an initial denoting the country or place 
in which the station is located. Thus we have the D 74 and the 
D 95 varieties of sugar cane, now extensively grown in Louisiana, 
which were originated by the Royal Agricultural Society of British 
Guiana, in Demerara, South America, and were introduced into 
Louisiana by Dr. TV. C. Stubbs in 18T3. 
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Fig. 3. — Two varieties of sugar cane (crops equally large) on the same farm after 
a storm : Fpper, Palfrey cane, one of the old home varieties, badly lodged ; 
lower, D 74 cane, standing erect. 
Both these varieties of cane on the rich alluvial lands along the 
lower Mississippi and its tributary bayous generally yield both a bet- 
ter tonnage and a crop of higher sugar content and have the added 
advantage over the old home varieties of being more rigid and there- 
fore not lodging so easily in storms, thus lessening the labor of 
harvesting. This erect habit of growth is especially marked in the 
D 74 cane. (Figs. 3 and 4.) Among the Louisiana planters these 
