, 1890-12-10

proprietor, drawing the profits of his estate
out of the island and making no return. we
should have not the least conjunction. should
1t be- required, in recommending the applica-
ton of the Act in tbs Instance.
The Address began by expressing the high
opinion entertained by the Society of the value
of the Investigations that are being made at
Dodds, on opinion confirmed by that ofthe high
est scientific authorities. Our readers are we'll
aware of our own convictions in regard to
these Investigations. We have more than
opce endoavoured to point out how important
it is that We should bring science to bear on
the cane, aS the French and Germans have
done with the beet. TO take one branch of
the work done at Iodds, the Demnrara oar
COSY ct Nov. l contains a most interesting
and instructive article on the growing Of
canes from the seed. We owe this great
advance III experimental cultivation to D0dd3.
We ave ON several occasions commented
on the de- we owe to agricultural science for
the improved fertilizers it has given us. The
debt is becoming generally recognised but it
Is not so generally recognised that what may
hold good IN respect to the manuring of one
kind IT soil may not hold equally good for
another and different kind. The Society
presses this claim for continued observations
to DO LIade on other soils and under other
SOA1N l1LlA LLOSC w DOONAS.
But by far the most convincing argument
III favour of extended experimental investiga-
tlon IN regard to the varieties Of cane and
thelr yield under varying manurial treatment
is derived from the results that have attended
the, bringing of science to bear on the beet
sugar industry. In 1879 the average yield in
GeTmany was 900 sa0charine by loS9 the
average had been raised to 14oLo. On the au-
thority of Professor Wiley, United States Pro
lessor Of Agricultural Chemistry, tao AVERAGE
yield mNcbraskais placed at lo1jo. Mostof our
recent American exchanges teen with reports
or increased Yields from the beet root in the
states OF the building Of new factories Of
syndlcates being formed to develop soon the
United States beet root industry to gigantic
proportions. Mr.. Oxnard, an English Capt.
talist at the head Of a company with a capital
OF one million dollars, has erected q large
factory in Nebraska, aud confidently cxnects
that Inasmuoh as he has polarized beets
having 22oLo saccharinc, he will in time raise
the average to lSoIo or 2doIo. The Agricul-
taral Society, IN view of the great strides the
beet industry is making in the United States
IRON ZOO tons of sugar in 1887, to r. 0
IhtS year,-and the great preparations which
are being made for charging the cultivati7n m.
the Government having this year imported
90 tons of sugar beet seed, and over 1900
Formers having applied for it,-the Society, in
view OF this, is alarmed, and rightly SO, Test
we should be driven c"om our best market.
And surely enough g 81 VII be driven thence.
II we DO not learn to ret larger yields per acre
and 80 cheaper the cost of production. 1t is
easy to state the problem-to grow larger and
sweeter canes and more of them per mere, and
to get out of them as nearly all the sugar thew
contain as possible. 1t is harder to do this
than to say that it must be done, or we shall
be ruined and there is no object to which the
Government might more fifty { vote its atten-
ton and its resources than to this, of sh ling
the way how it is to be done.
We regret that &c cannot report as f~tvoura-
ply OF the weatL : as We did in our two pre-
vlous summaries. November has not been as
kind to our agriculturists as either September
or October. There have been almost daily
Indications of rain, but the clouds have dis
P3rsed without dropping their reviving con-
tents ON our thirsty land. After the October