The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1857-04-16
NO 8.
Chinese Sugar Cane.

rowing ietter from Hon. w. S. Lyles on
the cultivation Of the Chinese Sugar Cane,
which is beginning TO attract much atten-
ton in agricultural circles: =.
HONE, March 27th, Is57.--MEssas.
EDIroRs: Having last year. through, tue
columns of the Fairfield Herald, called
the attention Of the agricultural portion of
the community To the value of that new nc.
QUESTION to our resources, the Chinese Su-
gar Cane, or Milloi, ask place now in y
your columns 10 answer the many inquiries
IN reference To its cultivation, dc, which
that call has given rise To.
Ny experience in its cultivation embraces
but single year. that OF 1856. Upon that
experience, with its observation, would
suggest the following mode: Select ,our
piece of ground (the richer the better. OF.
course) and bed it up precisely rs you
would for cotton. with the rows three feet
apart. Then open aud drill your seed and
cover with brand. In the course ofa few
weeks, when the millet Is four or five inch.
es high, shave 1t down with the hoe, care
fully picking out the young grass, DC AT.
ter tins Is done run the straight side of q
half or twisting shovel next the millet, GOV.
ering up the grass and weeds in the middle
OF the row. In about ten days, or when
The plants are eight or ten inches high. tho
midJles should be ploughed out and the
dirt Topped high and well around the
stalks. This was all the cultivation / gave
last year, and is sufficient for every purpose
think. / would then thin out TO one
stalk about twelve inches apart. This will
enable The stalks 10 grow sufficiently large
for grinding f,r syrup
After the FIST crop Is cut, and converted
into syrup, the second, which is far more
abundant, from the numerous shoo.s which
put out at the root, can be used for fuehnp
or converting into forage, by cutting and
diving AS you would any Of the millet
family.
will say of this cane or mile,, that il
is far superior TO any OF Ills family Of
plants. That it will produce as much rs
the common milIet, the broom corn. or
Dnurah-wiIl stand drough, better than
ether-and from lis abundance of saccha-
rine matter, is worth one hundred per cent.
more than any Of them.
The experiments of Gov. Hammond, Mr..
Peters, Of Georgia, and many others, have
settled the question beyond controversy, of
It's adaptation to syrup-rnaking, IL not sugar
making purposes; and ] have now in my
house a small bottle OF syrup, sent me by
my friend Capt Ii. c. Davis, OF Ridgeway,
made in the crudest manner possible, which
vii! compare favorably with the best speci-
mems of West India rnulasseS. For myself,
entertain not the least doubt that in five
years from this time syrups will he made,
TO supply the home demand, South Of Ma.
son and Dixon's line anl probably some
for exportaron. Should this, however. not
be the case, for forage and selling purpo-
the sugar inilei will he found nvaIua.
Lle.
will close by stating. that an energetic
ana public spirited friend, William Glaze,
at your city, will be prepared 10 furnish, n,
the shortest notice, aud on ia. most favora-
hle terms, all the machinery for crushing
and hoiung the cane into syrup. He has
Oh hand several different moIelS either of.
which Is well adapted 10 the purpose.
Respectfully. yours.
w. S. LYLES.
p 81 am now planting my first lot,
aud will plant the next about the 1T of
May, and third, If s. disposed, abou, The
FIRST of June.
SMur IL WnEAr.-M,. T. F. Barkley, of
Binlvillc, Tnumt county. Texas, in II letter
to the Commissioner uf Patents. STATES that,
IN innkiug over Jhe Patent Office reports
i1r 1855, hiS attention was called to the
u!jcct of smut in wheat. This brought 10
his recollection an experiment which was
m'ie by an acquaintance of his, Mr.. John
Mitchell, while he (Mr. By resided in
Nicholas county, Ky. Oae bushel OF wheat
was prepared in the following manner: One
peck covered with water. and after be.
iug permitted 10 remain Undisturbed for
tweuiy-iou houIs, it was ro,ied in hickory
ashes, and sown immedi ueIy; - second
peck, after being treated ia similar way,
WAS rolled in l;ine and sown Immediately;
thir peck, after being sieeped in water,
was rolled in ashes from oak wood, and
Immediately so~n; and the fourth peck
was ,own without any preparation.
The soil used for this experiment was the
same in all cases. The result was highly
satisfactory, rs the wheat which had been
prepared 10y being rolled in ashes was not
touched by smut, whilst that which had
been prepared 10y rolling in lime had four
or five heads oi smut, aud that which had
been sown without any preparation was al.
most entirely DESTROYED by its ravages. This
was the only experiment Of this kind which
had come under the notice OF Mr.. b., who
further states that the enemy Of the wheat
crop where he now resides is the chinch
bug.
MoDERN ELoQUENCE.-A correspondent
of The Boston Courier gives the following
extract from sermon recently delivered
by professor al Harvard University, and
asks il students are safe when exposed TO
such language:
"VjcNiug lhis snljcct from the esoteriq
stand point Of Christian excgelica analysis,
and agglutinating the poIysynthelical ecto-
blasts of homogeneous a>cetcism. we per-
ceive at once the absolute individuality of
n IL.