Show how to grow chinese sugar oane cane As many farmers in our vicinity and state are experimenting ill in the culture of the he new sugar following directions on the subject may be useful we find them in nahe cincinnati ga gar yete to which they tiley were furnished by men who have had llad experience ill in the field in the suar audr growing districts of this and other countries CHOICE OP or GROUND upland soil is better for sugar 11 than low I 1 ground round though the lafler jailer inay may be a strong deep soil it is supposed that the saccharine matter in plants is is absei absorbed bed chiea chita V from the atmo pl ere and arid though a larger growth of cane carl can be secured on low ground than oil on high there will be more wafer in the sap and as the cost of pressing and boiling is considerable it is 19 not always desirable to produce the lar largest gest growth but rathel rather the hie richest juice TIME OF PLANTING the seed of the lle ile lie chinese Sor sorgho gilo glie or sorgho sucie should not be planted until the ground has become warm to a considerable depth if tle the tie season is backward back waid like the present spring the ast or loth of june little will do very well mr whit ney of washington D C rai ral ed his best beet seed Ids year from seed planted on oil lle ile he lie ath of june mannen MANNEH CF CY PLANTING all aglee amee I 1 that one seed in it a place eight or terl tell en inches apart in ill drills four feet ap apart irr running north and south elves vives ives the best growth and arid renders its maturity more certain and arid uniform it s should hould be borne in mind that lle ile the lie sorg sorgho ho or im irn vilee stools rut put like wheat i e one olie seed produces several stalks and i it t is therefore n not ci tul tuu onty only I 1 useless but detrimental to a good growth of tile tiie he best cane to 0 o plant tile the seed too loo thick As light and air aie ate essential to the he best growth of sugar it la is better belter as a general thing to llave lave too foo 00 oo tew lew ew than too many stalks therefore no harin is done if it a few hills fail to come up as they probably will here is but one seed in a place cultivation this does not cloer citer from tile the cultivation of in dnn dun corn except that it should be watched w when lien llen near maturity when it is is ini intended ended to make or molasses the seed reed head should be pluck pinck ed out this thi 3 sho shoud uld be done after the seed has formed and before it begins begin sto to fill alli hili L e before it it begins to assume a ra railey 1 eky appearance or in other words while the seeds zd s ar are e yet of a green color inside the seed heads are easily plucked out by tho the grasping the tire hoad head an d jerking upward jn in a short lime time after this is 13 donel dope new panicle particle will aill shoot out from tire tile joints below on which new seed heads will form As soon as jas the seed in these new heads have begun to forni form Ahe the whole stalk should be stripped bare of all its leaves and danele pancie pa pan nele ole leaving nothing but the tile naked trunk SHIPPING this tills operation la s performed very quick by those to it it is done wilh with an all instrument shaped much like a pruning hook book only H is largel target and is not sharp A stroke down downward ward with v ith this instrument close lo 10 the he stalk strips off oft not kotonly only t lie lle and blAdes but also the sheaths around the fhe stalk at the base of or each blade if the in is sharp it does not clean cle lii eli iii the stalk so yelland belland yive jive lland iland bes beades des lub that lut it would be likely to wound the stalk a and nd cause it to sour CUTTING this may be done clone as soon as the sh shipping dipping is completed but not until uncil the mill and the keithel are arc all read re adya adyn yai the tle lie cane should ba be ground as soon asit as it is cut and ind theattice ibe the luice juice boiled as soon as 88 it is 18 pressed otherwise Other wie the quality of the syrup grup made from fromm it wj wil wll 1 l be inferior alid arid audit it will be nemly neatly imps impossible sible to make su Suar arl yoni Jiom flom it at all |