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Henry, W. A. (William Arnon), 1850-1932 / Amber cane in Wisconsin : a circular from the Agricultural Department of the state university
(1881)
Profits of cane-growing, pp. 8-10
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'7 , ~7 9 ty gallons of 3yrup, weighing eleven and a half pounds to, the gallon. The juice tested 734 by the saccharometer and was boiled down to forty. There was one load of leaves saved for fodder and three double boxes of seed which was fed to the pigs. I estimate the value of the crop as follows: DR. To interest on land .............$ 2 00 half days' work plowing.. 1 50 draggingand marking... 50 two pounds seed ............ 70 l tlanting ........................ 1 00 ,oeing........................ 1 00l cultivating .................... 1 00 stripping .................. 6 00 cuttng and binding ........ 3 00 topping and hauling ...... 10 30 hauling fodder and feed.. 1 00 4 barrels at 75c ............... 3 00 making 170 gallons at 20c 34 00 $65 0: Balance .................. 30 00 $95 00 CR. By fodder .................... $10 00 170 gallons syrup at 5Oc ... 85 00 $95 00 M. 0. MYRICK. SEED. Too much attention cannot be paid to the initial step in securing a good yield of syrup. Testimony upon this sub- ject is very variable, and it seems that there have been no rigid tests made to discover whether seed from points to the north or south of us produce the best cane. At the Minnesota convention, held at Minneapolis, January 22d, i88o, the following resolution was passed: Resolved, That early amber seed grown in the latitude of St. Louis, is the best for Minnesota for two years. I find nothing in reports of conventions of i88i which shows that opinion is at all settled upon this question. It is urged upon persons having seed of any particular merit to forward a few hundred grains at once in a letter to this department, statin in what particular it is supposed to be valuable.. A careful test Niill be made of such, the account published in our report and due credit given to the sender. I am desirous of obtaining seed of varieties which do best at points south of Wisconsin for experiments in cross-fertilization and acclimatization. Persons wishing I I :S
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