cultivating Sugar Canes. 349 
or the quality of the fugar, but may ferve as an indica- 
tion of the manner in which it is to be made. I lhould 
think an obje<5t of this importance would not be un- 
worthy the attention of fome very great chemift. 
Other obfervations have fhewn me that in canes 
which are perfectly ripe, the quantity of the fugar is 
equal to that of the molaffes. 
Let us now examine fome other circumftances relative 
to the growth of the cane, and particularly that of its 
duration. 
The 
lite dufucre, mais elle fert d’indice pour la traiter d’une fa^on ou d’un autre, et 
il me femble qu’un cbjet de cette importance ne feroit pas indigne de Tetude 
d’un tres grand chimifte. 
D’autres obfervations m’ont prouve que dans les Cannes parfaitement mures 
la quantite du fucre eft egale a celle de la melaffe. 
Examinons quelqus autres circonflances de FaccroilTement de la canne et fur 
tout celle de fa duree. 
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