Show experimenting with sugar cane lany experiments have been made becane greers in the east in the culture of for the purpose of testing te alting the respective merits of each and ascertain ascertaining til Ili inmost bost most profitable mode or of tillage the fol losing lol iol ving 0 in relation to the subject is from the pen of a minnesota farmer taken from the iowa homestead 1 I proposed to determine the relative merit of three kinds of cane and which mode of tr tra brating ratin ting the seed for planting was best beat for these purposes I 1 planted three rows eight rods long in my my garden which is a rich black sandy loam made still richer nicher by the addition of a large quantity ot 0 horse stable manure the year before 1800 and by the addition of ashes as athis this the canes selected for the trial were the common chinese Chirip se sorgho and two varieties of the african called xe ne a aza za na ria and millers early one one ona entire row of each variety these three rows were divided into three sections so 93 as aa to determine the effect of the treatment I 1 gave the seed before planting lanting in section one I 1 planted dry seed R three ace short rows one of each hind bind 1 kind ind on the evening of may nay lith in section two I 1 planted on the morning of the of may nay liay ilay seed that had bad been soaked in warm water 26 hours and in section three I 1 planted on the morning of the same day seed that had been soaked soak ed in a solution of chloride of lime and sulphate of copper bleaching powder abd and vu equal parts for 30 36 hours I 1 covered the beed beed seed a bout about three quarter of an inch deep in the ground sufficiently moist all came ame up u about the same time no difference dilie dille rence wor worth 9 mentioning ana in a week the erly waa was clearly tha th largest and that planted dry espedia lly ily eq arld alid so they ibey con inked till the middle of august when the sorgho dry feed over topped the whole standing the middle of september two feet higher than the early inee and the early was two feet higher lher iber i 0 her ber than the ne nc a za na IN GROWING the early grew like corn wi without P as the others character 1 letic was more plainly marked as aa I 1 panted a rova row of cirri beside it for comparison the early suckered but very little we the cyza nf a za na most and grew the slowest the lie ile loth of august the early was headed the the sorgho a week later the head bead of the ne nc a za na appeared and ae th e early wasi ripe ipe A few heas of the sorgho ripened by the last or of september and th tb malana salana ne azana never even blosso blossomed medi throughout the season the eane tane from the dy ary seed m mas was as the best that this was wab not accidental ci would woud appear from this fact I 1 fram two or three acres of light quick soil will well from barnyard with seed so BO ked to sp sprouting some of it in the chloride ot lime ilme and sulphate bul bui phate of copper mixture on may the next day planted plante ct hilt hilf an acre on lower ground with dry seed this half acre was my earliest piece heading out oat i a week sooner than the piece I 1 panted the day before with soaked seed the first made ltd its appearance the last day of july in just bixby seven beven days from planting now as to the merits of the kind of cane the from them lias ilas a marked difference and add as aff tastes differ I 1 do not feel called on to deede which makes the best beat syrup trost frost injures the early in re than the others othere Pro probably baby as it matures before frost comes nature designed by it to teach the danger of procrastination heavy frost spoils it while a smart freezing does nt injure the neawana Ne azana the sorgho is about half way between the two it s bours ours eam eau i than the neawana Ne azana but not so easil easily y as aa the early erly the th e early is the she he sweetest ceasur ing when the thee seeds are in a doagh state by bac bat clia cila rometer e gha degrees while the others ware six when dead ripe I 1 it t Is not so sweet by about twenty percent cent the h yields the greatest quantity of juice in and QT has th the largest stalk and will probably produce ws as much if not no t more syrup per acre As aa tb the early wiil will surely burely ripen deway way U up herein here in minnesota and abid gave about one owe hu hundred arad gallons per er ache acre of molasses wh vh ch I 1 prefer refer for table use to the maple and which is ig worth orth one third more for cooking purpose it would seem on the whole to be better cane for this petern latitude Iati lati tude I 1 might add much more ou on the care subby saby eject wa way y of improvement for roi to 16 me it 1 is on one e of vast interest but I 1 have bave already written rit benmore more than I 1 intended when rit ril 1 began |