Archive image from page 672 of Cyclopedia of farm crops . Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada cyclopediaoffarm00bailuoft Year: 1922, c1907 SUGAR-CAXE SUGAR-CANE wise good, are rendered worthless by the attacks of these pests, so that resistance to them may deter- mine the value of the cane for seed purposes almost as much as the production of vigorous buds. The handling of cane is necessarily rough, and prominent buds are often bruised or broken during the handling. From this it follows that canes with low flat buds are
Archive image from page 672 of Cyclopedia of farm crops . Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada cyclopediaoffarm00bailuoft Year: 1922, c1907 SUGAR-CAXE SUGAR-CANE wise good, are rendered worthless by the attacks of these pests, so that resistance to them may deter- mine the value of the cane for seed purposes almost as much as the production of vigorous buds. The handling of cane is necessarily rough, and prominent buds are often bruised or broken during the handling. From this it follows that canes with low flat buds are to be preferred to those with round and prominent buds. This is especially the case where the cane has to be flumed for long dis- tances, as the etfect of the water is to soften the buds and they are then more easily rubbed off as they pass along the flume. To prepare cane for seed purposes, it is cut into sections, each having one or more buds which it is intended shall germinate and start a new stool. While the new plant is establishing itself, it grows at the expense of the sucrose and other matters stored up in the cutting. It is important, there- fore, that this store of food shall be preserved for the use of the plantlet. If the cane is brittle, it is likely to shatter when cut for seed ; that is to say, the stroke of the knife causes each piece to split at the end in the manner familiar to everybody in chips of wood produced by the axe. These cracks aflford an opportunity for various organisms to enter the cut- ting after it is planted, and cause it to decay much more rapidly than it otherwise would. For this reason a cane that is brittle is one that is of less value as seed than one that is not. For this reason, also, the tops of stalks are more valuable than other parts because they are more succulent, and therefore less liable to shatter. To avoid shat- tering, or even cutting, it is the custom of some planters to use whole cane for seed. Leaf.— The microscopic stru
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