Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1882 [PAGE 80]

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74 The results of the analyses are given in the tables which follow:

TABLE SHOWING THE DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE OF SUGARS IN SORGHUM. Sp. gr. G r a p e C a n e Av. of Cane of Juice, Sugar. Sugar. Sugar. 1.055 •1.058 1.062 1.066 1.065 1.068 1.068 1.070 1.048 1.048 1.068 1.065 1.074 1.074 1.070 1,072 1.067 1.074 1.076 1.070 1.070 1.060 1.063 1.056 1.052 1.064 1.065 1.069 1.078 1.070 1.070 1.070 1.067 5.70 8.39 6.10 5.43 3.34 5.00 4.25 3.75 6.11 6.58 2.47 4.11 3.65 2.65 3.92 3.00 3.46 3.10 2.97 2.98 3.26 3.67 2.61 2.18 4.13 2.13 2.79 2.47 4.02 2.93 2.71 2.61 3.16 4.90 3.38 7.12 8.42 10.75 9.13 9.84 12.75 3.71 5.19 12 48 9.76 10.10 13.37 11.89 13.66 12.49 13.18 13.64 12.80 12.52 10.24 13.47 11.14 8.60 11.42 11.02 10.06 11.41 12.48 10.77 10.57 11.76 4.14

S t a g e of D e v e l o p m e n t .

No.

Date.

Variety.

B e g i n n i n g to h e a d

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 IK 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33

Aug. 14, '80.. O r a n g e . . . Aug. 10, '81.. A m b e r Aug. 25. '80.. O r a n g e . . . Aug. 10, '81.. A m b e r Aug. 14, '80.. A m b e r Sept. 6, '80.. O r a n g e ... Aug. 10, '81.. A m b e r Aug. 12, '81.. A m b e r Sept. 1, '81.. O r a n g e . . . 1 Sept. 2, '81.. O r a n g e ... Aug. Sept. Aug. Aug. Aug. Aug. Aug. Aug. Aug. Aug. Aug. Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. 25, 16, 10, 12, 16, 16, 19, 19, 19, 19, 19, 1, 1, 1, 1, '80.. '80.. '81.. '81.. '81.. '81.. '81.. '81.. '81.. '81.. '81.. '81.. '81.. '81.. '81.. Amber Orange ... Amber Amber Amber Amber Amber.... Amber Amber Amber Amber Liberian . Amber Amber Chinese...

I n blossom

7.77

S e e d soft a n d milky

8.56

S e e d in h a r d e n i n g d o u g h

11.95

Seed ripe

Sept. 6, '80.. A m b e r Sept. 16, '80.. A m b e r Oct. 2, '80.. A m b e r 6, '80.. O r a n g e . . . Oct. Sept, 9, '81.. I. I. U . . . . Sept. 1, '81.. A m b e r Sept. 2, '81.. A m b e r Sept. 5, '81.. Ambt r

11.18

The analyses made in 1880, numbers 1, 3, 5, 6, 11, 12, 26, 27, 28, and 29, were from cane grown upon the University farm. The following data in regard to thB planting and cultivation of the cane were furnished by G. E. Morrow, Professor of Agriculture: Two varieties, Orange and Early Amber; seed obtained from Hedges, St. Louis; planted by hand, May 14, 1880. The Orange was planted in a plot of nearly one acre (.955) in 24 rows four feet apart, in hills about four feet in a row. The Early Amber was planted in a plot of one and one-half acres (1.48) in 40 rows three and one-half feet apart, and with hills about same distance apart. Each plot was on good prairie soil which had been,in corn two years, following a liberal application of barn-yard manure. The plots received ordinary field culture—a two-horse corn cultivator,— except hand-hoeing and thinning to four or five stalks when ten to twelve inches high. The suckers were not removed. The Orange averaged about seven feet in height, and over an inch in diameter at base. The Early Amber averaged over nine feet "in height, and