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for seed, by planting a few hundred seeds in a temporary hot 
bed, or sheltered spot, as early cabbage and tobacco plants are 
reared, and these may afterwards be transplanted into the open 
grounds. Such plants will seldom produce suckers. A fort¬ 
night may be gained by this process in ripening the seed, and 
the produce will be fully matured seeds. 
Too much caution cannot be taken, that the seed plants are 
grown beyond the influence of broom and coffee corn. One of 
these last plants would ruin the seeds of fifty Sugar Cane plants. 
In the next place I shall treat of the quantity and quality 
of the juice of Sorghum and Imphee, as compared with the 
juice of the true sugar cane ; and the probable profits of its 
culture. Subsequently of the manufacture of sugar. 
We now take it for granted that the farmers who intend 
to raise the Sugar Cane, will plant their seed on rich, warm 
soil, as early as the twenty-fifth of April ; that they will culti¬ 
vate the plant as good farmers do Indian corn, rearing just 
enough to fill the ground, and then, that they are looking for¬ 
ward to the produce of the crop. To aid them in their calcu¬ 
lation as to the quantity and quality, is my object at this time. 
Instances have been known of 2,500 gallons of crude juice 
produced on an acre of land. Though the average yield should 
be about 1,000 gallons. A moist soil, or wet season, if there 
be sufficient warmth, will produce large reeds ; but the juice 
contained in them will contain a less per cent, of sugar, in so¬ 
lution, than smaller reeds raised in a dryer season, on more 
porous soil. The density of juice, perhaps compensating for 
diminution in quantity. It has been known to vary in density 
from 12 to 35 per cent, in saccharine matter. As a general 
thing it contains about 20 per cent. 
There is the greatest amount of juice from the time the seeds 
have hardened so much that they will grow, until they are fully 
matured ; and at that time it also contains the greatest amount 
of sugar. 
From this rule there are exceptions. If the weather be 
warm, with much moisture in the soil, then there will be an ex- 
