Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1882 [PAGE 82]

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76 The cane from which analyses Nos. 17, 18, 19 and 20 were made, was grown upon timber land about three miles N. E. of Urbana. The seed probably came from Minnesota. No. 17. Cane grown by Mr. E. Bishop. Field ten years in cultivation, manured three or four years ago. Seed planted about the middle of May. Eows 3 | feet apart in hills 3 feet apart. An average of eight stalks in a nill. Cane small. Nos. 18 and 19. cane grown by Christ. Shuman. No. 18 was on high land, twelve years in cultivation, and had never been matured. An average of five stalks in a hill. Growth of cane medium. No. 19 was on low land, four years in cultivation. Average of eight stalks in a hill. Cane large and thrifty. No. 20. Cane grown' by Sam'l Wilson, on land four years in cultivation. Hills 3x3^ feet apart. An average of eight stalks in a hill. Field on the top of a small hill. Analyses Nos. 9, 10, 22, 31 and 32 were made in Macoupin county, Illinois, Nos, 9, 22 and 31 from cane raised about two miles north of Virden, by Mr. Chas. Eauch, and Nos. 10 and 32 one mile west of Girard, by Mr. D. C. Ashbaugh. The prairie soil in this county is very black, deep, and "mucky." No. 9. Cane grown on timber land. Seed planted May 12, 1881. Hills 3 by 3, an average of five stalks in a hill. No. 22. Volunteer cane. Prairie land. No. 31. Prairie land. Seed planted first part of May. No. 32. Prairie land; seed planted latter part of May. The results of experiment No. 53 were obtained from cane grown by Christ. Lust, about a mile west of Monticello, Piatt county. The field was timber land—a poor, clayey soil. Seed planted first week in May. Analyses Nos. 23, 24 and 25 were made of the juice of sorghum grown upon the so-called Mississippi sand-lands near Oquawka, Illinois, No. 23 was from cane grown by Dr. Park, one mile east of Oquawka. Nos. 24 and 25 were made from cane grown by Tom Eicketts, two miles N. E. of the same place. Development of sugar. Analyses Nos. 5, 11, 26, 27 and 28 were made from the same field on the dates specified, and show conclusively that the cane sugar reached its maximum quantity when the seed was in the "hardening dough/' and that it afterwards gradually diminished. The same fact appears on comparing the average under each division in the table. Effect of stripping and allowing to stand. On October 2d, 1880, an analysis was made of the juice of cane, which had been stripped on the 18th of September—the cane not otherwise disturbed,—with the following result: Specific gravity of juice 1.074 Grape sugar 1.82 per cent. Cane sugar 13.11 " " This subject needs further investigation.

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