Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1856-12-13
Sugar growing in the North.

MANY OF the Northern journals come
to us with long >pecuIations on the pos
s.bili,y Of producing sugar at the North,
from a hardy cane that has been cutiva-
ted with some success during the sum
,ner in several experimental attempts.
The Philadelphia Journal announces
that it has received specimen Of the
stalk, and quantity Of the seed Of
sugar caue, which was grown at Pitts
grove, Salem county, New Jersey. The
cane is of The China species, ard was
raised from seed procured by Com. Per-
rv when abroad on the Japan expedi~
ton. The Journal says:
The soil used in this experiment was
Of light, sandy character, and the
planting was done i" May last. We nn-
ler~tand that this and similar attempts
to cultivate ,hi, particular cane in New
Jersey, have been highly successful so
much 30, indeed, as TO encourage be-
lief among intelligent practical men,
that the culture may be carried on in
most Of tue Middle States to a great ex-
tent, and with considerable profit
One person in New Jersey, from STALKS
grown. on small patch of ground.
made seventy five gallons Of good mos
Iases. equal to the best New Orleans.
While we are not disposed to doubt
the success of the projected sugar culture
at the North, on con njectural or theore,l>
cal grounds, We do not infer from one or
two local experiments, however auspices
ous'v they may have been conducted.
that the production of sugar there can
ever be introduced practically on large
scale. as one Of the industrial pursuits of
that region All the remarks that we
have seen in the Northern papers base
the chief difficulty which has stood in
the way of this branch Of agriculture at
the North, upon the liability Of thy su-
gar cane to be injured by frosts, and the
want OF sufficiently warm sun ion.
enough to bring the cane to maturity
1t is now supposed that this obstacle
may be avoided bv the hardness OF the
China variety, which Is said to be pecu
I;a:|y insensesib|e to some Of the intiu
ences which i"jure or destroy the more
susceptible varieties Of the paat. But
in every description OF this new variety
that we have yet seen, we DO not find 1t
stated that it will resist any high degree
of cold.
The Chincha cane was received into
tn. Botanic Gardens Of Calcutta, in l79t
direct from China; having been spec'a:
" ordered by the Bengal government
at the suggestion Of DR.. Roxbnrg. who
considered it new species, and namec
it Sacchorum Sinemse, or Chinese sugar
cane. That gentleman, in descrintio'
OF it, written in 1899, says: 1T has
beer cultivated with the utmost success
MANY hundred thousands have been dis
t,ibuted over the country amongst th'
cul,iva,ors of that article" Another
good authority, DR.. Boyle, in his interest
ino work on the resources Of India, thu
speaks of the China cane: 1t posses
the advantage ofbeing so ha'd ard so'''
as 20 resist the forceps Of the white ants
and the teeth of the jackel-two grea
enemies to the East India sugar p'anta
; tious," He adds that the cane bear
, drought much better than the sorts
general cultivation, producing, moreose
a profitable crop, even to the third yea
7 while the common cane OF India mu
> lie annually renewed.