. Cyclopedia of farm crops, a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada;. Farm produce; Agriculture. SUGAR-CANE SUGAR-CANE 607 an easy matter. On the other hand, when cane is not ratooned, the seed question is of the greatest importance. Subsequent care.—For the first few months after planting, the cane is actively cultivated. The com-. Fie. 833. An old cane shed; placing cane on a carrier by hand in the old method. Louisiana. monest tool is a one-horse cultivator. This is followed by boys with hand-hoes. Cross-cultiva- ting with machines is not much pract
. Cyclopedia of farm crops, a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada;. Farm produce; Agriculture. SUGAR-CANE SUGAR-CANE 607 an easy matter. On the other hand, when cane is not ratooned, the seed question is of the greatest importance. Subsequent care.—For the first few months after planting, the cane is actively cultivated. The com-. Fie. 833. An old cane shed; placing cane on a carrier by hand in the old method. Louisiana. monest tool is a one-horse cultivator. This is followed by boys with hand-hoes. Cross-cultiva- ting with machines is not much practiced, and, in consequence, the work of the horse-machines is completed by hand. The horse cultivators are mostly of the tooth pattern, but recently disk- cultivators have come into vogue and promise to prove very useful in certain cases. In one ma- chine these consist of two disks run on either side of a light beam, like that of a single-furrow plow. In regions where the original timber was heavy it often happens that for some years the crop has to be cultivated by hand throughout. This is also the case on certain rocky lands that neverthe- less yield good crops of cane. The object of the \ culture is to keep out weeds and to encourage ; the growth of the cane. The methods vary ac- i cording as the crop is grown without or with irrigation. In the latter case it is necessary to keep the rows of cane at the bottom of a furrow so as to accommodate the irrigation water. The land usually becomes " covered in " by the cane at the end of four to six months, and machine cultivation then ceases. Harvesting and handling. Cane is harvested by hand. Machine cutters have been invented and tried, but so far no machine has been a great success. It is hardly unsafe to predict that a cane-harvester will yet be invented. The cane-knife and the machete are the tools with which cane is cut. Where ratooning is frequent, the ratoon-cane is some- times pulled in order to secure as much st
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