Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1863-03-14

almost equal to the broom corn Itself
May not this be proof of their natural
tendency.
We do not apprehend any danger that
the Impbee Canes will by bridize with the
Broom Corn. We have found no such de.
teriora,ion with this tribe of Cane, for the
same experiment has been tried as with
the Chinese, and the weight Of the Imphee
the fourth year was from 10 to II Beaum.
This being so, We are unable to detect
any tendency to by bridize with the Broom
Corn But this we know, they will mix
VITA their own tribe Of Canes, and we are
not fully prepared to say that the Imphee
will hybridize with the Chiaese. We have
tried four kinds of the Imphee, by plant.
ing them in alternate rows, and really
they are both improved. They weigh ten
Beaum; but one was four months, and
the other three months ripening. They
all ripened about the same time. AS to
the Canes mixing with the Indian Corn.
there is no such thing, for we have taken
volunteer stalks two years running from a
corn field, which showed a sacchariue
sweetness of | ! Beaum.
MASURING-In speaking of soil, we
have said that often times there was too
much ammonia in it, If the soil is too
highly impregnated with it, there will be
little or no crystolization in the Cane -
Horse, hen, or gigeon manure will deS,
troy all, or neaaly so, the crystaization
for sugar.
Crushed Cane or Regasse strewed in
the path of the pillow, the next furrow Gov
eriug it, is very excellent stimulus to
the Cane. But if we do not know ust
what the plant requires, We had better use
no manure at all. We have used ashes,
lime, plaster Paris, all of which have very
much aided in the fulsome granulation or
growth of the crop. If we had the full
direction Of this plant whence it has been
cultivated for ages, in the culture, manur
ing, and manufacturing, instead Of being
now where we are, at the end of seven
years of hard experience, we might have
been twenty years ahead Of what we now
are, and the Agricultural Department at
Washington could not have spent money
to greater advantage THAI to send an
experienced agent to those countries in
which these Canes originated. There can
scarcely be an estimate of the advantage
the American farmer might receive from
such information. 1t is what we want
See how for half century the South has
struggled up under its sugar manufactur-
ing system.
Any ordinary land, properly titled, will
produce two hundred gallons per acre, at
an expense not exceeding the cultivation
of an acre of corn up to the time of bar
verting, and the value of the seed will pay
the expense Of gathering the crop and
taking it 20 the mill; and the mill will
work it up for half the product, returning
the producer one hundred gallons per acre
worth, say, thirty-Gve dollars. Then de-
duct ten dollars per acre for toe expense
Of cutivating, and the farmer realize $25
net per acre for his crop of sorgho. This
is undoubtedly low estimate.
We are cuItivating twelve different
kinds Of the lmphee Canes-the Neesee-
azana, Boomywana, Oomseeana, Shlagoo-
need. and others, which sugar finely
Their saccharine qualities are good. We
aim to keep pure supply Of these seeds.
j. Ii. SMITH, Quincy, Ill.