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Show Sugar Cane. Sugar cane requires an abundance-of abundance-of sunshine and water and a deep, fertile fer-tile soil. In planning the stalks are-laid are-laid lengthwise in furrows, and each joint sends up a jshoot. which later-produces later-produces suckers. Yhm ready for harvesting a field of sugar cane resembles re-sembles a corn fie'd. but the plants are somewhat larger ami there are no tassels anil no ears. The stalks at this time have been growing about 12 ! months and have changed from green to reddish in color, wl.i'e most of the-lower the-lower leaves have f: lien away. They are cut by band with a long knife, stripped of their leaves and curried on carts or small cars to the sugar mill. |