Sugar at 3c per lb.- Paid growers per ioo lbs. sugar ................. $I 50 (Or $2.80 per ton of cane.) Manufacture and fixed charges ................. i 234 Net to factory .............................. 26/4 Selling price ..... ................. $3 oo At 5c per-lb. crop of 16,ooo,ooo lbs. nets factory ............................. $202,000 oo At 5c per lb. crop of 16,ooo,ooo lbs. nets growers ................ ........... 125,000 oo At 4c per lb. crop of 16,ooo,ooo lbs. nets factory .............................. 92,000 oo At 4c per lb. crop of 16,ooo,ooo lb. nets growers ............................. 75,000 oo At 3c per lb. crop of 16,ooo,ooo lbs. nets factory .............................. 42,000 oo At 3c per lb. crop of 16,ooo,ooo lbs. nets growers .................. .......... 25,000 oo These figures are net profits, deducting all costs of pro- duction and manufacture. YIELD OF CANE PER ACRE. Authentic statistics show that yields of 65 tons of cane per acre have been made on this character of land in Florida. An average of 47/2 tons over a field of 420 acres was made in 1888, without fertilizing. A yield of 60 tons per acre is recorded for 1901-2 on sim- ilar lands. ANALYSIS OF CANE. Thirty-seven samples of Florida cane analyzed by Prof. Wm. C. Stubs, Ph. D., director of the Louisiana Sugar Ex- periment Station, shows as follows: Sucrose .................. .5.04 per cent. Glucose................... 1.78 per cent. Coefficient of purity .........81.68 per cent. Equal to 187.53 lbs. granulated sugar per ton of cane.