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and full of faith in the utility of this plant, and believe it will 
pay in this latitude, even in such seasons as the past has 
been....” 
No. 34.—J. S. Woodward, Niagara Co., N. Y. “ -X 
planted 120 hills, three feet apart each'way, with seed re- 
ceired from you.*..Oct. 15, cut and pressed it in a mill 
made of two beech rollers, costing $2, besides two rainy 
day’s work...-.Obtained from the plot (4 rods of ground) 
8 gallons syrup of fine quality, though not quite equal to 
the best Sugar House....” 
No. 35.—F. P. Bissell,-Conn. “....Ihave made some 
as nice syrup as I ever saw....I am convinced, beyond a 
doubt, that making syrup from Chinese Sugar-Cane will 
be a profitable business in old Connecticut.” 
No. 36.—Sam’l S. Thompson, N. J. “_We made 
sundry experiments at different stages of growth, running 
the canes through a common cider mill....Our syrup is 
better than any we have bought for a year_We obtain¬ 
ed more juice, with a larger per centage of syrup, from 
entirely ripe eam-s, than when the seed was in the dough 
state.” 
No. 37.—S. H. Jenks, Mich. “_Planted package 
you sent me in 60 hills ; got 35 gallons of juice; made 4 
gallons of good thick syrup ; cut canes Oct. 3. 
No. 38.—S. W. Martin, N. Y. “_I cut up 142 canes, 
pounded them, boiled them, strained out the juice, proba¬ 
bly did not get one-half of it, but I got over a gallon of 
syrup which was awarded a premium at the County Fair. 
....My wife used some of the syrup in about a gallon of 
plum preserves, for which it proves to be very nice_1 
I shall hardly get any seed unless from three canes I have 
taken up with the earth adhering, aud put them in boxes 
under shelter....” 
No. 39.—T. Cather, Va. “_Planted yourletterpack- 
age on 10 rods; hoed out the weeds twice without plow¬ 
ing....Imade ten gallonsof excellent syrup or molasses, 
notwithstanding the cold season and late planting....” 
No, 40.—A. G. Weed, Iowa, “_Seed planted very 
late and young plants much injured by grain....Seeds 
had begun to turn at the time of frost, Sept. 28. I think in 
ordinary seasons the seed will ripen in Northern Iowa.... 
1 made a small quantity of superior syrup, about Sept. 
20....” 
No. 41.—Joseph Troth, Iowa “_Corn planted at 
the same time (May 10,) mostly lotted in the ground, but 
the Cane seed nearly all came up and grew slowly at 
first but in warm weather it grew finely....A frost on 
Sept 30, nipped the corn, but not the Sugar Cane which 
is now (Oct. 12.) still growing, and suckers shoot up from 
the main stalk....” 
No. 42.—J. N. Weaver, Tenn. “_I planted in hills 
2 feet apart in rows 3) feet apart.. .Made one gallon of 
excellent syrup to the square rod. 
No. 43.—James Pott, Pa. “-1 manufactured 45 gal¬ 
lons of syrup this season from not over one-third of an 
acre, while with my rude machinery, 1 am satisfied that 
fully 15 per cent of the saccharine matter remained in the 
cane_I feel well paid for my. labor. The syrup is of 
a better quality than that purchased at 75 cents to $1 per 
gallon. 
No. 45.—A Foster, Ind. “ — A neighbor traveling at the 
West, “ farm-hunting,” chancing to pass by Mr. Foster’s 
sugar works, stopped and gleaned some items. Mr, F. 
planted one acre, and obtained 450 to 500 gallons of eyrup, 
resembling in color and consistency the best New-Orleans 
molasses, and fully equal to it in quality....Planted on 
prairie soil. Crushed with wooden rollers which ex¬ 
pressed only about i of juice. Boiled down to one-fifth in 
sheet iron pans Saleratus used to neutralize acid....” 
No. 46.—J. B. Hungerford, Ohio. “....Planted one 
ounce of seed on 25 rods of ground....Pressed the cane in 
a wooden mill and obtained 17 gallons of good palatable 
molasses, superior to that purchased of grocerymen....” 
Not room now for your good and full description of Mill. 
Imphee noted elsewhere.—E d. 
No. 48.—John Dexter, Conn. “....From 225 hills ob¬ 
tained 6 gallons of very superior syrup.... Crushed canes 
with a roller used for pressing leather, which took out 
only a portion of the juice. Fair sized stalks yielded a 
pint of juice each... Boiled down 6 or 7 gallons to one..” 
No. 49.—J. L. Stevens, Maine. Latitude 44® 22'. “.. In 
a small experiment, obtained a little syrup, very sweet 
and of excellent flavor —wish I had a barrel of it_Add to 
j above table for No. 12. Success to the Agriculturist _” 
No. 50.—J. Brown, Ind. “-The Sorghum is no hum¬ 
bug. I planted J acre, and made 40 gallons of superior 
molasses....The speculators ‘ Out West’ are already 
looking very wise and verry happy, in the hope of making 
a grand speculation out of the African Imphee.... ” See 
remarks elsewhere.—E d. 
No 51.—A. McClelland, Ohio. *-....From your pack¬ 
age I raised 225 good stalks, and many suckers which I 
fed out-Raised 1100 good stalks from Washington seed. 
Cut worms injured it considerably.... Pounded aud coiled 
100 stalks from your seed, and made 3 quarts goodmolas- 
ses..From the 1100 stalks run once through a simple wood¬ 
en mill, I got 80 gallons juice which made over 11 gallons 
of as good syrup as I ever bought for $1 12 per gallon.... 
Plowed my crop once and hoed it three times_One 
man here will have over 100 gallons of syrup, many others 
from 12 to 40 gallons.... You have my sincere thanks for 
your labor in introducing the seed so widely among farm¬ 
ers_” 
No. 52.—Chas. M. Keep, Michigan. “....With a small 
wooden mill, too small to be of much value, I obtaiued 7 
pounds of thick syrup from 140 canes.. ..Left home be¬ 
fore finishing the grinding_” 
No. 53.—E W. White, St Lawrence Co., N. Y., lati¬ 
tude 44® 35' “-Sowed on southerly side of woodshed 
and house, in 3-feet rows, seeds 6 inches apart; found to 
be too thick ; should be in 4-feet rows, and hills 3 feet 
apart ... Seed yielded 1 to 6 stalks each, average about 4 
stalks....Season cold and backward up to middle of 
July-Oct. 1, took 50 stalks, the productof 14 orl5.seeds 
only ; stripped off leaves ; cut into pieces of 2 to 4 inches ; 
crushed and pressed in Ilickok’s Cider Mill (seepage 227, 
Oct. No.); boiled down to 4 gallon thick molasses_Oct. 
24, by same process as above, 140 canes gave one gallon 
of molasses, with probably one half the saccharine matter 
left in stalks. Both samples of molasses of better quality 
than that from the South.... The leaves eaten greedily by 
cows increasing the quantity of milk_Oct. 81, a few 
stalks left standing for seed, averaging 12 feet in 
hight, one head has now ripe good seed. The seed on the 
other stalks about half good....” This is the far¬ 
thest point north where the seed has been reported to 
ripen.—E d. . 
No. 54.—H. G. Ainsworth, Ill. “....From seed you sent 
me, planted May 25, as in table, I raised one bushel of 
seed.... Intend to go into its cultivation more extensively 
another year, as I consider this county well adapted to 
raising it, and it is also valuable for fodder....” 
No. 55.—D. B. Simmons, Ohio. “_Planted 4 acre as 
above, in hills 31 feet each way, 6 to 10 seeds in a hill. 
Did not remove suckers... Built a rough mill, but am now 
(Oct. 29.) cutting canes in a common straw-cutter, boiling 
the pieces, and condensing the extracted sweet in a cop¬ 
per kettle. I have thus far got one gallon of first-rate syr¬ 
up from each 12 hills, averaging about 6 stalks each. 
(About 300 gallons to the acre by this imperfect process !) 
... .The syrup thus far made is superior to any molasses, 
or even to Stewart’s refined syrup. There is no humbug 
about the Chinese Sugar Cane.... Hogs, horses and cattle 
eat every portion of the cane after the juice is extracted-” 
(Canes pressed, without cutting and boiling, should no 1 
be fed to ca'tle.—E d.) 
Notin Table.—S.N. Cox, of Bartholomew Co.,Ind. “..j 
write this to say that the Chinese Sugar Cane will grow 
and ripen in Indiana, and that we enn hereafter make our 
own molasses Aere....From less than half an acre we 
made 75 gallons of thick molasses, superior to the New- 
Orleans, and I think equal to Maple. My mill was two 
Oak logs, 15 inches in diameter. It would not work until 
we put in cogs... .We did not extract over two-thirdsof 
the juice. We boiled in common sugar kettles used for 
making Maple Sugar....From several experiments at 
different stages of growth, we conclude there is as much 
syrup and nearly as good, when the seeds are brown as 
w hen fully ripe, but the fully ripe canes give syrup of a 
finer flavor.. ..Removing the heads and blades and letting 
the canes stand a few days I think gives more and better 
syrup....We tried it for sugar, but it did not grain very 
well_” 
Roswell Plummer, of Middlesex County, N. J., has 
made the most careful experiments in this vicinity. We 
expected a full report, but he now chances to be absent 
at the South. The following are extracts from his mem¬ 
orandum book : Planted June 2_Sept. 21, 100 selected 
green canes gave 13 gallons juice, yielding 5 quarts of 
good molasses_Oct. 6, cut 515 B>s. cane ; took off leaves 
and tops, gave24 gallons of sap... .6 square rods gave'2,120 
lbs. of cane, yielding 964 gallons of sap. .*.40 square rods 
(4 acre) gave 14,220 lbs. of cane (over 7 tons)_Oct. 12, 
selected ripest canes and obtained 1 gallon very fine 
quality molasses to 6 gallons }f juice (This was equal to 
any syrup we ever tasted.—E d.) _Have tried distillation 
and obtained one gallon of very fine Spirits from 6 gallons 
of sap.... Nov. 4, cane badly frozen in the field, but we 
are making one gallon of very fine molasses from four gal¬ 
lons of sap. ...The best results obtained by boiling juice 
immediately on expressing it, and as rapidly as possible 
... .Boiling down quickly in shallow pans, with nothing 
added for cleansing, and strained after condensation 
through flannel to remove all specks, we obtained very 
clear, light colored syrup. 
DEFERRED REPORTS. 
A large number of excellent reports, giving details, 
came in after the above was made up and stereotyped. 
Several of them will be given hereafter. Among them 
we may name: Benjamin Fenn, Jr., Trumbull Co., 
Ohio, (very complete) ; B. I. Talbot, Hardin Co., Iowa ; 
II. Williamson, Chester Co., Pa.; John S. Strong, Meigs 
Co., Ohio ; R. T. Ostrander, Walworth Co., Wis., (espe¬ 
cially interesting;) Eli Smedley, Lancaster Co., Pa.; Jas. 
II. Stout, Wheeling, Va.; Jas. C. Kelsey, Linn Co., 
Iowa; Wm. Chase, Providence Co., R. I.; G, Morse, 
Claymont, Del.; Wm. G. H., Lancaster Co., Pa.; Wm.II. 
Bolmar, Rockland Co., N. Y.; Lyman Lawrence, Van 
Buren Co., Mich.; Wm, Wilton, Alleghany City, 
Pa.; Geo. L. Squire, Knox Co., Ill., Ac., Ac., Ac. Hun¬ 
dreds of other reports are made, but it will be impossible to 
refer to all. Messrs. Fenn and Ostrander give favorable 
results upon making sugar. Another article, in the Jan. 
No., will give the more important particulars in the de¬ 
ferred reports. 
roil THE BOYS AN1) GIRLS ONLY. 
Work For Winter Evenings. 
By work we mean employment, and to use a thought 
suggested by another person, it is work which will beeomo 
play to those who take an interest in it, just as play be¬ 
comes work, and hard work too, if we don’t feel in the 
mood of it. 
The work we have to suggest will be new to a great 
many of our readers, though not to all of them. We want 
•to get at least one person, in every family where the Ag¬ 
riculturist is taken, to edit a newspaper. We want to 
have a Home Journal started in every household. Who 
applies for a situation? Who is ready to entertain the 
plan. 
We have no personal ends to advance; we don’t pro¬ 
pose to open an exchange list, and ask for a copy of 
every paper published according to our suggestion, but we 
are in earnest in our recommendation, and hope it will be 
followed by a great many. 
“A newspaper in every family ! a printed newspaper?” 
No, a written one. We think that there are things hap¬ 
pening every day which may be treasured up very suc¬ 
cessfully by those who are on the look-out for news, and 
which in the course of a week will fill several columns 
and be quite entertaining to all who are allowed to read 
the record. The thing has been done, and we shall try to 
tell how others may do the same thing again. 
First, an editor is wanted ; an enterprizlng lad, or a 
girl of ready mind, who is willnig to take all the trouble, 
and do all the work if necessary. [The rest of our article 
is confidential, and addressed to the editors alone.) 
We advise you first to issue a Prospectus, informing the 
family that you intend to publish a weekly paper, to be 
called “ The Home Journal,” “ Our Paper,” or whatever 
else you please to name it; and to be issued every Satur¬ 
day evening, just after supper ; and inviting all who wish, 
to send you communications and advertisements. Then 
proceed to prepare the first number. Each one must de¬ 
cide for himself, about the size of the paper he can afford 
to publish. We recommend as the best size and shape, a 
half sheet of foolscap paper folded once ; a small sized 
letter sheet answers very well; note paper is too nar¬ 
row. Papers of this size are easily kept without folding ; 
they are easily read, and when an enlargment is demand¬ 
ed, or an “ extra” is called for, it is a very simple matter 
to stitch [wo sheets together, either one within the other, 
or back to back. Let the name be written or printed in a 
bold hand across the first page with the motto, and the 
register number ; thus: 
OUR HOME JOURNAL. 
Designed to interest and Prqfit the Family. 
A. B. C., Editor j “ Tall oaks from little ( Published every 
and Proprietor. | acorns grow.” ) week, at home, 
Vol. I. No. I. 
Draw a lifle under ths title, and another line perpen¬ 
dicularly through the middle of each page. The next 
thing is to secure the reading matter which should be 
wholly original, and which in most cases the editor him¬ 
self will have to write. It will do him no harm if like 
Franklin, he has everv kind of work to do. But he need 
never lack topics. He may enlarge upon any subject he 
pleases, and offer his criticisms with perfect independence. 
He may record all the news of the week, remembering 
that people like best to read about, the things they are 
most familiar with. He can give personal items respect¬ 
ing all the members of the family ; and if his paper ap¬ 
pears well, very likely by Christmas day he will have 
some new books to “notice.” A very nice pleasant seat 
that editor’s chair will be. Some planning will be requis¬ 
ite to “ make'up ” the paper, and get every article into 
its proper limits ; and to get all the pictures original or 
selected, well arranged. The editor will have numer¬ 
ous confidential talks with different members of the fami¬ 
ly, and at certain hours through the week will be mys¬ 
teriously busy in his private “ office.” But no one wil' 
