Year: 1865

bulk, leave air passages through the cen
ter, or what is better, support it up from
the ground or floor upon a low cribbine
of rails, allowing the air to circulate BE-
meath. Avoid leaving cane au unueces
sary length oftime in small bulks, expos
ed to the sun aud wind. The juice evap
crates rapidly, aud it will soon become 80
dry as to be worthless. :~' >t F
FKozEx CANE. s i


A frost that merely kills the leaves
without freezing the cane does no injury,
except that it leaves tho stalks exposed
to the sun in much tho condition OF
stripped cane. It should therefore be
cut and stored or shocked without much
delay, to prevent the undue evaporation
of juice. If the thermometer descendi |
one or two degrees below the freezing
point the probabilities are that the juice
is frozen 10 the stalks. If this is the
case it will be indicated in few hours: ,::or
as soon as thawed by very obvious color
ing, which appears when stock is cut.
The juice cells become ruptured and min.
gle with the crude sap, the sugar water
staining the portion affected The depth
to which the frost has penetrated can be
distinctly seen. Frozen cane should be
cut down with all possible dispatch aud
protected as much as possible from the
sun. To save time cut it without strip
ping, and if necessary for greater dis
patch, throw it into close heaps on the
ground, and as soon as practicable put it
10 shocks, or if the leaves are dry it may
be put Immediately into sheds or shocks
Avoid putting it up in large bulk when
warm from the sun, and in all the opera
tions have regard to the importance of
keeping it cool. Ifcut Immediately after
being frozen and put up and kept cool
there need be no fears about loss or dam
age. 1t will keep for an indefinite period
But hours, and even minutes, are impor.
tant. If neglected and exposed to the
warm sun fermentation commences i'm
mediately, and in a few days of warm
weather, such as usually follow early
frosts, the sugar is gone to the winds.


An untimeIy frost, that is, one which
occurs early, while tho cane is growing
vigorously, before it has been stunted
aud somewhat hardened by moderately
cool weather, is more disastrous than a
late frost, even to cane in apparently the
same or corresponding stages of maturity.
The cane is moro tender and susceptible;
it contains more of the ferment;ng ele-
ment, and the weather which follows an
early frost is usually unseasonably warm
Let no cane producer Begulle himself
with the idea that ripe cane is not liable
to injury from freeze. Both ripe and
green cane are susceptible and in almost
the same degree. A freeze will cause
the utter loss of either, if not Immediate
ly protected from the sun, aud it is not
worth while to calculate upon any sdvan-
tage which one may possess over the
other. If two lots were exposed to the
same freeze we should secure the ripest
first, as it would be presumed to be the
better worth securing.


QUICK LIME.


If lime is used We thiuk it is better to
slakc quantity, with only sufficient wa
ter to reduce it to powder, aod then ap
portion the doses in this form. 1t would
certainly enable the operation to be more
definitely performed than when it is ap.
piled in the form of milk or cream ol
lime, as is customary, In the latter
mode the best judgment in the world
may be deceived as to quantity. It. j,
almost wholly guess work. Have stocl
of lime on hand aud always use from thu
same. Mix the quantity designed to b.
used with a measure of juice, and sti
this into the juice in the tank. If tn,
juice then stands awhile large quautit,
of sediment will be deposited, and this i
is desirable to leave behind. Hence j
is good plan to draw from the top o
the tank with swing pipe, or from abov
the bottom, to avoid disturbing the sedi
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