[Syrupmakers] Sugarcane books wanted

[Bill Outlaw]

Can you provide more information about Tew's book?  ISBN? co-authors? 
Publisher? &c.?

Thanks.

bill
(sc, Tally)

At 09:47 AM 12/29/2006, you wrote:
>    I would like to have a copy of Sugarcane by Ernest Artschwager 
> and E W Brandes (USDA Handbook # 122, 1958) which gives 
> descriptions of many varieties. I read about it being for sale on 
> an internet bookstore website but they no longer have it. Also, I 
> would be interested in Dr. Thomas Tew's more recent and even bigger 
> book on sugarcane varieties. I have looked on Amazon.com and Ebay 
> with no luck. Can anyone help ?
>                                    Richard Harrison
>
>RussellHenderson at aol.com wrote:
>After eight cookings, our group of volunteers, all over 60 years 
>old, say ENUFF!  Consequently, because of that and the mild winter, 
>we have leftover cane for sale.
>
>You harvest, you haul from 5.2 miles south of I-75 in Gainesville, 
>Florida.  Four stalks per $1.00.
>
>It's an unknown variety of hard green and purple cane which we have 
>used to make an excellent syrup for the past nine years.  With water 
>and fertilizer, each year it has grown tall, thick and 
>straight.  There are 6 1/2 270-foot rows of cane, estimated to be 27 
>cubic yards or 5000 feet of rows if used as seed.  Each of these 
>rows makes a little over 80 gallons of juice.
>
>Harvest on Fridays, Saturdays or Sundays.  Call Bob Henderson at 
>(352) 284-7342 days or (352) 376-7031 evenings.
>
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