412 WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
In regard to the summer culture, it should be of the most 
thorough Find. Cut off all suckers that start after midsummer; 
if nipped below the first joint they will cease to shoot ; half 
grown canes are good for fodder only ; commence stripping 
about the time of the first frost; strip two-thirds of the way 
up ; cut up as soon as the first hard frosts occur ; cut off one- 
third of the length with the top for fodder, and work up imme¬ 
diately. If it cannot be worked immediately, cut and stook 
after the manner of corn, setting very compact in large stooks, 
with a layer of unstripped cane around the outsides to keep out 
the weather. Bind the tops tightly and it will keep till win¬ 
ter. When so kept, two or thee inches of the butts should be 
cut off and fed to the swine ; tops cut off one-third of the 
length, bound and stacked for the cattle ; they make the best 
of fodder, and will pay the cost of cultivating the crop. Great , 
care should be exercised in storing the cane, in the fall, in piles 
or out-buildings, as it will quickly heat and be worse off than 
if stacked in the field. Freezing is beneficial by chemically 
changing the gums and neutralising the acids, thereby increas¬ 
ing the yield. If partly frozen the expressing is far more easily 
and effectively performed, the water remaining partly in the 
cane, and the juice being 50 per cent, richer than in the fresh 
green state ; the cleansing process being one-half performed 
by the frost. 
But great care should be exercised to keep the cane below 
the freezing point after once being frozen hard. 
Few doubt the capacity of our State to produce any desir¬ 
able amount of Sugar Cane in seasons when we can get a good 
crop of corn ; but the great inquiry is about the 
MANUFACTURE, 
Which is necessarily a process requiring good machinery , much 
energy, and constant care , for a failure in any one of the dif¬ 
ferent operations will defeat the object in view. 
In regard to the mill for expressing the juice, we will only 
say that it should be immensely strong , with the least possible 
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