Show SUGAR GROWN UNDER PAPER New Method Introduced Into the Hawaiian Ha wallan Islands Said to Have Proved Proved Proved ed Highly Successful A new and very odd method of growing grow grow- ow ing lag sugar cane is proving highly successful successful suc suc- In the Hawaiian Islands When the cane Is beginning to sprout yard yard- ard wide strips of ot a heavy kind of ot paper are laid lengthwise over the rows of ot little plants and held In place with eane field cane field trash The paper is strong enough to keep down and smother the starting weeds but not to kill the tout stout and hardy young cane In five or six lx weeks the weed seeds beneath the paper have all aU germinated and been smothered to death but the cane shoots have either forced their way through or erected themselves sufficiently sum to make little tent tent like like eleva eleva- Laborers then pass along the rows and with long knives es make slits silts In Inthe inthe inthe the sheets permitting the shoots to come through The liberated shoots hoots at first fint are blanched white but quickly turn green and lusty thereafter thereafter there there- after alter Is almost wholly needless because because be be- cause there are VeT very few tew weeds There is an increase of ten tons about 28 per percent percent percent cent in the yield of cane per acre the Baltimore Sun says Half Halt the labor Is la saved and the production of ot actual sugar su sugar gar per acre Is augmented by more than a ton The paper used is made out of which is the residue of ot the cane after the sugary sap cap has hils be been n squeezed out of ot It |