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It likewife proves, that it is not the age of the canes 
but the drynefs of the weather, which increafes from Ja- 
nuary to April, which is the caufe that in January four 
hundred gallons of juice commonly yield forty-eight 
gallons of iugar and molafles, one with another; in Fe- 
bruary from .fifty-fix to fixty-four; in March from fixty- 
four to feventy two; in April fometimes eighty; after 
which period the lugar ferments, and even burns when 
the refiner happens not to be very expert at his bufinefs. 
Hence I concluded, that the greateft perfection of relative 
maturity to which my canes could arrive was when the 
juice of them was made up of four parts water, and one 
part confifting of part fugar and part molafles. 
This laft obfervation likewife proves, that the colour 
of the juice has nothing to do with either the quantity 
or 
Cel a prouve aufli que ce n’eft pas Page des Cannes mais le fee qui augmente 
de Janvier en Avril qui fait qu’en Janvier 400 gallons de vefou rendent ordi- 
nairement 48 gallons tant fucre que melaffe, en Fevrier de 56 a 64; en Mars 
de 64 a 72; en Avril quelquefois 80. Apres quoy le fucre moufle, brule meme, 
fi le raffineur n’a qu’une routine; de ce dernier point j’ay conclu que la plus 
grande perfe£tion de maturite relative ou mes Cannes puffent atteindre, etoit 
iorfque leur jus contenoit quatre parties d’eau et une tant de fucre que de 
inelaffe. 
Ce'a prouve audi que la couleur du vefou n’intereffe ni la quantite ni la qua* 
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