| Show the cane growers experience G S L crry ciry feb 17 1861 eln ein EDITOR rolt rort DESERET NEWS in my experience with the chinese bucar sugar canei cane 1 I have taken a few items which I 1 le believe will be a benefit to those who intend to cultivate ftp it especially in large quantities I 1 saw a field of five acres last summer belong ing to one of my neighbors that produced only one orle hundred and twenty gallons per acre this cane grew on good soil and on the outer edges the cane was large and good but in the centre of the field ahe abe he cane was ilg light it and land altogether it was but a meagre crop in a small field near by the soil no better thlin than the other a crop ya wes produced which yielded at the rate of three hundred gallons per acre wh why this dlf dif flrrence difference it was not in the soil neither neit nelt ler in irrigating for neither field was watered but I 1 believe belleve eleve it was in letting the small patch have plenty of sun and ani air narrow patches at 0 cane have always produced abst so far as my experience has extended my aly mode of planting would be as follows above all things procure pure pare seed and as aa soon as aa lios 1108 possible sible kible in the spring plant a strip say two rods widey wide with cane then plant a strip of the same width wih wilh roots or som bomm 3 low growing crop and soon boon so on alternately this will admit of the cane being planted in hills 3 ft by 3 ft apart and five or six bix canes in a hill bill A person owning a small farm can thus change his cane land every year it should not be irrigated too much let it be in the spring as long as possible without watering ant an ant t rather use the lioe hoe enough than water too enuch to store the syrup for a small family make a vat of white pine plank two inches thick three feet long eighteen inches deep and eighteen inches wide this will contain fifty gallon probable cost coat six or seven dollars cheaper and better than pine barrels for strong syrup J B M |
