CHINESE AND AFRICAN SUGAR CANE. 
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The constituents, as determined by analysis, from an average 
taken from various experiments made by different persons, are 
as follows : water 81, sugar 18.20, organic and saline matters 
.80, in all 100. 
I shall here introduce a synopsis of a letter from Mr. Taylor, 
of London county, Virginia, relating to the Irnphee. 
Last spring he procured from A. 0. Moore, of New York, 
four packages of African Sugar Cane Seed, of an ounce each, 
marked Boomoowana, Neesana, Oomseeana, Enyana. Boomo- 
owana and Neesana were marked “ early,” and the others 
“late.” They were planted on the 15th and 20th of May, on 
ground that would produced forty bushels of corn to the acre, 
in rows four feet, and in hills two feet apart. The stalks were 
larger than the Sorghum, but not so tall, seldom above eight 
feet. The heads were more compact, and yielded much more 
grain. The Boomoowana yielded at the rate of sixty-six bush¬ 
els per acre, and weighing fifty one pounds per bushel. The 
Neesana and Oomseeana yielded at the rate of fifty bushels, of 
sixty pounds, per acre ; and the Enyana, being on inferior soil, 
yielded only thirty-six bushels, of sixty pounds, per acre. 
Some of the seed was ground by him and produced flour far 
superior to buckwheat in yield and quality ; which, mixed with 
one-quarter wheat flour, made fine, light bread. 
As a Sugar-producing plant it was much superior to the Sor¬ 
ghum, at that place. The juice marked a density of 1.125 to 
1.144, or of 16° to 18° Baume, and would yield from 29 to 
80 per cent, of saccharine matter. He boiled some of the 
juice, and had no trouble in granulating it into cane sugar ; 
showing a quality one-half better than Sugar Cane. 
These varieties will ripen in this State, if planted at the time 
I have before named for planting Sorghum ; to do which there 
can be no difficulty this year, from present appearances, (March 
7th), when the ground is about thawed out. I am not aware 
that seeds of the irnphee can be procured, though there is an 
abundance of Sorghum, raised last year in this State, for sale ; 
