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356 WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
The Sugar Cane yields in Louisiana, Texas, and Florida, on 
an average, 1000 pounds of sugar, and T5 gallons of molasses 
to the acre. Such is also the yield of most of the West In¬ 
dia Islands, except on such pieces of land as are irrigated and 
highly manured. This amount of sugar and molasses would 
indicate a yield of from 750 to 875 gallons of the crude juice 
to the acre. In this particular, the Sorghum in Wisconsin wil} 
greatly exceed the sugar fields of the South,—not unfrequently 
producing twice that quantity. A little more than half of 
this crude juice is convertible into crystalizable sugar, by the 
means heretofore used by the sugar manufacturers. To pro¬ 
duce the 750 gallons of crude juice in Louisiana, requires about 
13,000 pounds of stripped reeds of the Cane, ready for the 
crushing-mill. Under the best management in grinding with 
the common rolling mills, not more than 69 pounds of juice can 
be obtained from 100 pounds of reeds, though there should be 
at least 85 pounds from the 100. 
In this last particular the Sugar Cane of the South is less 
productive than the Sorghum or Imphee, because it contains 
considerable more woody matter. These last will yield as high 
as 92 pounds of juice to 100 pounds of reeds. They ripen 
the whole plant, while the Sugar Cane in the Southern States 
does not ripen but about four feet in length of the fourteen feet 
of growth. And even with the precaution of cutting off the 
immature top portion, much unripe cane goes to the mill, the 
juice of which will not crystalize. Thus we have another rea¬ 
son why the juice of the Sorghum and Imphee, is richer in su¬ 
gar than the juice of Sugar Cane. 
From what has been said it must not be supposed that the 
reeds of the Sugar Cane, Sorghum, or Imphee, contain but 60 
or 70 pounds of juice at about 18 per cent, sugar, in 100 
pounds of reeds ; or that these reeds contain from 30 to 40 
pounds of woody matter, only fit for the manure pile. Or, to 
be better understood, that there is but 10 or 12 pounds of su¬ 
gar in 100 pounds of reeds. On the contrary thereof, there 
is at least 18 pounds of sugar in ever y 100 pounds of reeds. 
