rt, I have always reckoned as an average, 3,600 lbs.
of dry sugar to the acre as the return this cane will give, on
anything like good land, in the Straits, according to the present
imperfect mode of expressing and manufacture; but, considering the
surpassing richness of land in the West India Islands, Demerara, and
Mauritius, I should not be in any way surprised to find that it
would there give even three tons an acre.

The Salangore cane grows firm and strong; stands upright much better
than the Otaheite; gives juice most abundantly, which is sweet and
easy of clarification, boils well, and produces a very fine, fair
sugar, of a bold and sparkling grain."

Much discussion has arisen on the subject of raising the sugar cane
from seed, and the possibility has been universally denied among the
planters and agricultural societies of the West India colonies. Mr.
Pritchard, a sugar planter of Louisiana, in the "United States Patent
Report for 1850," however, states:--

"It is an error to suppose that the cane cannot be propagated from
the seed. This may be the case when the seed is obtained from plants
that have been produced for a number of years from buds, or eyes.
All plants that have been produced in this way for a series of
years, lose the faculty of forming prolific seeds; and the sugar
cane is governed by the same laws which govern the whole vegetable
kingdom. It cannot, therefore, be expected to produce seeds after it
has been cultivated for a great length of time."

The sugar cane is composed of water, woody fibre, and soluble matter,
or sugar. In round numbers it may be stated that the proportions are
72 per cent. of water, 10 per cent. of woody fibre, and 18 per cent.
of sugar.

The fluid contents of a cane, according to Dr. Evans, contain 90 per
cent. of the entire structure of the stem.

1,000 grains of sugar cane, being burnt, gave 71/2 grains of ash, which,
on analysis, furnished the following components:--

Silica 1.78
Phosphate of lime 3.41
Red oxide of iron and clay .17
Carbonate of potash 1.46
Sulphate of potash .15
Carbonate of magnesia .43
Sulphate of lime 6
----
7.46

The following is the quantative analysis of a portion of soil taken
from the surface of a c