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Show 8ugar Cane. 7 Sugar cane requires an abundance of sunshine and water and a deep, fertile fer-tile soil. In planting the stalks are laid lengthwise in furrows, nnd each Joint sends up a shoot, which Inter produces suckers. When rendy for harvesting a field of sugar cane resembles re-sembles a corn field, but the plants are somewhat larger and there nre no tassels and no ears. The stalks nt this time hnve been growing about 12 . months and have changed from green to reddish in color, while most of the lower leaves have fallen away. They are cut by hand with a long knife, stripped of their leaves nnd corrled on carts or small cars to the sugar mill. |