| Show A new sugar culture the late london papers contain descriptions of the remarkable productiveness for the manufacture of sugar and of f a plant lately introduced trod into europe from fr h called the it is said in some of these de descriptions I 1 eions to be identical with the them sorgho or I 1 I 1 0 S sac 8 c charatis cli ch aratus of f linn linnaeus teus acu ECU 3 which win cli cil is cultivated china for the manufacture of sugar the sorghum is described in the 0 of f plants as all an indian much muoi cultivated in arabia and most paris parts a I asia minor also in china italy spain and the west indies and it is said that brooms are mude of the spikes it is described as of rapid growth ad and tilT abundant food for man and cattle cattie and poultry in some botanical work it is confounded with the broom broomcorn corn this however must be a variety dlf dif differing fiering mater materially ialy laly from the plant cultivated in III the above named countries the seeds of this plant of which variety we are not informed were last year received at the patent onice office at washington and distributed under the name of f the chinese sugar cane or sorghum Saccha ratum 1 it has doubtless bee been planted the present season in III various parts of this country with what success it is not yet time lima to know the direction from the pater potent office was that it should ba be cultivated as broome broomcorn and planted in hills lulls three feet by two lapart and six stalks in III a hill mr air E WRAY in a letter from paris pans addressed to the london tune timis speaks of the various plants of this species which have been heretofore introduced trod into europe and says that lie he has fifteen varieties which winch are far more valuable collected colleted coll eted by him himself seirin in Caf fieland freland which lie he has carefully stud led cultivated aid and manufactured into sugar during a long period and finally in ported into europe in the tiie beginning of 1854 f he le adds that he lie has now I 1 a considerable amount of the tile plant under cultivation in four departments in ilu the south of france and that he has also introduced it into guadaloupe whence lie he has his received information that i it has yielded four full crops in one year from the sime same S ime sowing we extract the following from mr brays description crip tion of the plant if not exaggerated establishes established s its claim to a trial in every part or efthia this country for it would seem that if it cannot mature sufficiently to make sugar it will make alcohol or at least fodder for catt leand food for poultry in in abundance atwould it would appear from mr brays W rays description that the from caffre land is is of more rapid growth than that cultivated 1 in china of which the seed has been distributed from the patent office these vary in time of growth from 75 da days Ys up to days the most precocious taking only aly from 75 to 90 days to arrive arrne at perfect maturity others again 90 to days and so oil on up to the gigantic ivin vm bis chu a pa which takes days and reaches a height of 15 feet on the other hand the chinese requires even in the luxuriant soil soli and climate of algeria days to complete its maturity at the fa same me time being more woody in its stock and less full of juice than the cammire caffre varieties it must mu a t be at once evident to every mind that the simple Terence difference dif dlf between 90 days and days in in the growth of a plant requiring the hot sun of summer must bf itself decide the tile relative importance of the two for european future culture from this cause it is is principally that the great efforts effi orts made by the french chemists cile clie mists and cul cui jurists to obtain cryst crystallized sugar from the juice of the the chinese Cli inese variety have hitherto so signally filled and that they are ara obliged to convert its juice into alcohol instead w perfect maturity and a peculiar process of man manufacture which I 1 have patented in many countries insure the mot most complete crystallization of the concentrated juice and the sugar re su ilin liin 7 cannot be discerned atom real cane augir of the colonies to which it is is equal in every everyne ever re the yields from one to two and a half tons of sugar per acre according to the quality of soil and the character of the climate and season besides molasses and grain of excellent quality and more moreover ofer in some departments depart mens of france the most precocious varieties yield two crops in the year y ear from the same sowing 11 As fas your pans P dris correspondent correspond corre spon dent very truly tru y says ays t the grain gram fu furnishes a good flour for bread mk making ig and nd the green plant itself forms the most grateful and nourishing fodder for cattle which any one ona can cm desire while its rapidity of b growth being at the tile rala rate of about 12 inches a week is really something marvellous marcellous marv ellous boston daily adv 1 |
