Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1848-01-15
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Agricultural.

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Analysis Of the Ashes VI tIa
Sugar Cane.
The following from the Southern AFv
eDknrist vii impress upon The sugar plati
ter the necessity Of spreading and careful
blowing In all Of The eane.tops and bal
gasss, to save lh8ir lands from the. FapiI
exhaustion that Is now going OF. Wher
The bsgasse Is used fur fuel, the ashs
should bs applied 10 the land. We Sue
pFet that II Is rarely The case In Louisiana
that sufficient degree If bsat In generates
In The surface, 10 convert, ~ larga.amUun
Of the silieh and alkaIlss present into
hard, inselubls glass"
Knowing that soute ofyour readers tvoul
take ~ inter- stin The following RESULTS upoi
the ashes Of hs ahgat oaNe, obtained b
Mr.. Btgnhplse, | have bssn NJ the pains Il
cotdon+s ihemlF6m 4 very yaluabI memot
published by this gentleman IN q #uppienep
tary number oftbs London, and Edinbu "a
PM. Magazine, and journal NJ seiencf
mo. 1888, Dee. ls45, D. 63g,) and here
with offer them 10 you, with a remark o
Two Of my own, provided They meot yout
views,
4 q
Silica
45,e7 42,go 4o.4e 41,s7 40,Ae COO
phospi6fic aeid.
$40 TOO e,2o 4,5e $40 o,sd
sulphurie acid
G,eo 1904 4,s4 10 % 7,6a 0 a
Lifue
o,1o 1920 s,gi OIL 6,78 BOZ
Magnesia
$3.50 o,ss $50 e,o2 1901 l8,oi
potassa
$3.50 1901 1903 10 30 li.oa 1900
Soda 1850 - O,B7 I.aa
Chloride potassium
8,27 - TAI 500
Chloride sodium
2,O2 100 0,2i g,1a s,o5 a.o2
Z 10 II Ia
Silica
45,1s 1854 ao,os $40 1879 64.sg
Pbosphorc ecid
ass 1877 go ta,0a 800 col
sulphurie acid
ia 1871 COS a,at $3.50 i,oa
Lime
4Ao 2,s4 0,e7 1864 l1,oa l4,so
Magnesia
1890 a,oa s,4s S,oa SOL go
potssaa
1877 1898 sl,al 1000 TAO ll,14
Soda l,94 - $50 -
Chloride potassium
- 1910 lila - 1906 0s4
Chloride sodium
7.2s 1912 1914 4,2s 2,27 ass
Nos I2. .. and 4. wero very fine fill
grown cane, from Trinidad, CONSISTING Ri
stalks End caves. but without the roots
Nos 5, o and T wers similar canes from
Bprbicej No. q from Dsmavata, No. b. al
foil grown canes, but with few leaves. Gon
the Island Of Greoada ; No. 10 Gom Tre.
iawny, Jamaica, consisting of Transparent
canes 10 foil blossom, grown about sis
miles from tho sea and manufed with cat.
tls dung No. II, Of transparent caneg.
from ~, James Jamaica, growing about
two hundred yards from the sea-. being old
rasfooHs, and also ruanur=d with canle
dung !; No. IL young, transparent eanes
three and Q half niles from the sea, and
nangred with cattle dung, guano and mari.
From these analysis, II appears that lie
care TOR successful cultivation reaairea 4
very large quantity If ~silicate If poiassa
and also q considerable amount II he
phosphates. Few cultivated plants, e4cept
cereolia, require 50 much. Wheat, III
any Of The cereals, necessarily causes the
removal ofa portion offbe valuable inorgn
mic constituents Of the toiI, such ~ The
aikaiies, p~hosphates etc., which ran only
be returned 70 II indirectly but with sugar
case b quite otherwise. Sugar h n
purely organic substance, consisting IF
carbon apd The elemetts Of wafer, all on
which can be derived from the atmosphere.
and contains neither aIkalies, nor phog.
20 that If the ashes Of the canes
were carefully collected and returned 10 the
soil in m available state, there Ii no gea,
Q why cane might MT be- growa upon
same lands almost indefinitely.
In the West Indies, where wood IL
scarce, the cru he'd canes are employed as
fuel, under the coppers Of the boiling house
q conc nitrate the syrup, and as the heat
required il great, . large amount Of The
silica and The alkalies present Is converted
into q hard, insoluble glass. wbich in thts
form being useless, Il thrown away. We
therefore. readily, understand The rea.
Of the rapid exhaustion of their saear.
lands, and the comparatively slow wearing