Sugar, cane and beet: an object lesson . re are many—is most likely to flourish in his soiland climate. As to cultivation, tJtie ordinary rules forgood ploughing, good drainage, and careful hoeingduring the early growth, are just as imperative in thetropics as in the European fields of sugar beet or anyother crop. The sugar cane is planted, not sown. A bit of cane,long enough to include two or three of the rings, islaid lengthways, or stuck in in a slanting direction,along a furrow running the length of the field, or inholes dug at regular intervals. When the trench isplanted the pieces of can
Sugar, cane and beet: an object lesson . re are many—is most likely to flourish in his soiland climate. As to cultivation, tJtie ordinary rules forgood ploughing, good drainage, and careful hoeingduring the early growth, are just as imperative in thetropics as in the European fields of sugar beet or anyother crop. The sugar cane is planted, not sown. A bit of cane,long enough to include two or three of the rings, islaid lengthways, or stuck in in a slanting direction,along a furrow running the length of the field, or inholes dug at regular intervals. When the trench isplanted the pieces of cane are lightly covered withearth. In a few weeks they show growth above germ-bud at the ring has begun to shoot out intoyoung cane, and the ring at the same time has thrownout rootlets into the soil. The parallel trenches mustleave room between them to enable the labourers,when the wide-spreading canes, double the height ofa man, are getting ripe, to reach between the rowsand remove the dying leaves which cumber the ripening. sSL^_ By permission of the Queensland Government THE SUGAR CANE 16 SUGAR cane. The falling leaves take with them much valuablefood to return to the soil, and the naked cane has betteropportunity for good ripening. This ripening of the cane is a very ticklish the cane is cut before it is quite ripe some of thesugar which it contains is not in a crystallizable the other hand, if the cane gets too ripe some of itscrystallizable sugar goes back into the uncrystaUizablestate. This must often be a sad trouble to the managerof an estate and factory. Again, if the central factoryis supplied with canes from a multitude of smallfarmers they may be all wanting to send their canes inat one time. To the factory this is an impossiblesituation. The manager must, consequently, be con-tent to have canes which are not always at the exactpoint of ripeness which might be desired. The growth of the cane, lasting about twelve months,is an interest
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