We study the SU(3) Toda system with singular sources, where E τ := C/(Z + Zτ) with Im τ > 0 is a flat torus, δ p k is the Dirac measure at p k , and n i,k ∈ Z ≥0 satisfy ∑ k n 1,k ≡ ∑ k n 2,k mod 3. This is known as the non-critical case and it follows from a general existence result of [3] that solutions always exist. In this paper we prove that (i) The system has at mostWe have several examples to indicate that this upper bound should be sharp. Our proof presents a nice combination of the apriori estimates from analysis and the classical Bézout theorem from algebraic geometry.(ii) For m = 0 and p 0 = 0, the system has even solutions if and only if at least one of {n 1,0 , n 2,0 } is even. Furthermore, if n 1,0 is odd, n 2,0 is even and n 1,0 < n 2,0 , then except for finitely many τ's modulo SL(2, Z) action, the system has exactly n 1,0 +1 2 even solutions. Differently from [3], our proofs are based on the integrability of the Toda system, and also imply a general non-existence result for even solutions of the Toda system with four singular sources.