cultivating Sugar Canes. 1 13 
getting the plants which are wanted after the crop is 
over. 
My own method, which I now proceed to explain, is 
this: I employ the whole of the fix firft months 
of the year in the bufinefs of the crop, and in May 
and June plant the canes which have been cut in Ja- 
nuary. This of courfe induces a neceflity of cutting 
the rattoons at the end of the eleventh inftead of the end 
of the twelfth month, and the planted canes, w'hich 
fhould hand fifteen months, at the end of the year: in 
return, the whole plantation is cut every year. 
It is objected, that befides the firft lofs from cutting the 
rattoons one, and the planted canes three months before 
their time, there is a fecond which arifes from what is cut 
not being fufficiently ripe. Thefe objections I mean 
to anfwer by the hiftory of the cane, that of the feafons, 
that 
procurer le plan dont on a befoin dans une faifon ou la recolte efi: cleja faite. 
Je propofe d’employer en entier les fix premiers mois de l’annee a faire la 
recolte, et de planter en May et Juin, les Cannes coupees en Janvier, ce qui 
entraine la neceffite de couper toujours, les rejettons a onze mois au lieu de les 
couper a douze, et les Cannes plantees a un au lieu de les couper a 15 mois: 
mais on coupe chaque annee toute laterre deftinee aux Cannes. 
On obje&e a ce fyfieme, outre la perte qui refulte de ^anticipation cl’un mois 
de coupe pour les rejettons, et de trois mois pour les Cannes plantees, le defaut de 
maturite qui fuit de cette anticipation 5 je reponds a ces objections par l’hiftoire 
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