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CANE SUGAR.some length in the text, is the development of the 'natural' method of controlof insect posts, under the direction of Koebele, Craw and Perkins.In tho French latiguago the Bulletin de V Association des Chimistes deSucrerie, &c., contains much valuable matter dealing with the sugar cane towhich II. Pellet has given many important contributions.It is in Java, however, that the scientific study of the cane has reachedits highest level. During the past twenty years there has come thence a seriesof papers, unsurpassed for academic interest and technical value by any similaraeries in any industry, either in Europe or America. The work of G-eerligs oncano sugar manufacture, the pathological and physiological work of "Went,Wakker, Krügor, van Breda de Haan and Kamerling, the cane breedingwork of Kobus, Bouricius and Moquette, the engineering studies of Delfos,Bolk, and van Moll, the entomological researches of Zehntner and van Deventer,and the agricultural enquiries of Kramers and van Lookeren Campagne, makesome knowledge of Butch essential to the proper appreciation of the cane sugarindustry.In the pages immediately below is collected an imperfect list of booksand journals dealing directly or indirectly with the cane sugar industry, withnames of publishers where known.AGRICULTURE.Porter. Nature and Properties of the Sugar Cane. Smith Elder & Co.,London, 1843.Evans. Sugar Planter's Manual. London, 1847.Wray. The Practical Sugar Planter. Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1848.Kerr. Treatise on the Cultivation of the Sugar Cane. London, 1851.Heynoso. Ensayo Sobre el Cultivo de la Cana de Azucar. Rivadenegra.,Madrid, 1865. (Deals with Cuba.)Delteil. La Canne a Sucre. Chalamel & Co., Paris, 1884. (Deals with Mauritiusand Bourbon.)Bonâme. Culture de la Canne à Sucre. Chalamel & Co., Paris, 1888. (Dealswith experimental work at Guadeloupe.)Semler. Tropische Agrikultur. Wismar, 1888.Basset. Guide du Planteur des Oannes. Ohalamel & Co., Paris, 1889. (Verydetailed general treatise.)Potter. De cultuur van het Buikerriet op Java. Arnheim, 1889.Krüger. Das Zuckerrohr und seine Kultur. Schallehn & Wollbriick, Magdeburg,1899. (Embodies the earlier results of the Java ' Proef Stations.')Watts. Introductory Manual for Sugar Growers. Longmans, Green & Co.,London, 1893. (Addressed to small planters of the West Indies.)Stubbs. Sugar Cane. U.S. Dept. Agric, 1897. (Deals with Louisiana.)Tiemann. The Sugar Cane in Egypt. Norman Eodger, Altrincham, 1903. (Manymanurial results.)Sedgwick. The Sugar Industry in Peru. Trujillo, 1904.vi.m