I'm not sure that it might be the soil, the cane in my youth was planted, grew, and was burned. The sugar-mill scientist then tested the quantity/quality and sometimes I remember ploughing it back in after cane was removed for replanting. The length of cane goes into a drill horizontally and the new crop grows from the knuckles. A drill is the manner the earth is turned, so the dirt is raised in lines eight or nine inches taller than channel beside before next drill. Makes for axle-breaking travel across the drills. But those few inches also help the hand-cut with a sharp enough knife to remove one's own foot at the ankle if wielded negligently. 😐
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