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Percentage of in-| Percentage of increase in | Percentage of increase in 
crease of population.| amount of butter produced. amount of cheese produced. 
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New York..-...--. 252 13 41 29 4 34 Loss, 24 107 1024 
Pennsylvania -..}| 254 QL 52 47 4 (ca Raikes <othate aio li ali 
WHO 2... ocasece 18 14 35 41 3h 46 4 12 16 
Punois 2 2 .2es5<2 101 484 | 198 124 284 188 44 212 349 
Michigan........ 58 | 197 1194 at 245 62 41} 129 
OWS sis sce bests 251 Tt | 521 450 130 1, 167 338 46 540 
Wisconsin ..-..-- 154 36 | 245 2744 | 65 518 176 198 722 
Vermont .-...... t 5 5 31 12 47 | Loss, 6 | Loss, 5 | Loss, 104 
drnidiana = 25). - 2. 36 244 | 70 2 | 25 78 | Loss, 3 | Loss, 344|,Loss, 37 
Massachusetts ..| 24 18 464 3 | Loss,21 | Loss,19 | Loss, 25 | Loss, 22 | Loss, 42 
MAING? 22S. S! 8 | Loss, 1-5) 74 262 | Loss, 4 26 | Loss, 26 | Loss, 36 | Loss, 53 
New Hampshire. 24 | Loss, 2h |-.----- Loss, 4 | Loss,14_ | Loss,144 | Loss, 30 | Loss, 61 | Loss, 73 
North Carolina..| 144 8 23 14 | Loss, 9 33 | Loss, 47 1423 29 
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GROWING SUGAR IN LOUISIANA.—Our correspondent in the parish of 
Terrebonne writes as follows: 
Our sugar-crop last fall was seriously injured by freezes on the 15th, 16th, and 17th 
of November. The canes were killed to the ground, and nothing but the cool weather 
which followed prevented them from becoming sour and an entire loss. Taking the 
depreciation in quantity and quality into consideration, the loss may be put at one- 
fourth of the crop. <A good deal of seed-cane also was caught before windrowing and 
destroyed. One of the principal difficulties in sugar culture in this climate is the pro- 
tection of the seed through the winter. Every conceivable plan has been tried, and 
all sometimes fail. Protracted rains, or unseasonably warm or intensely cold or very 
dry weather, injure the seed more or less, either In mats or windrows. The last win- 
ter was generally cool, without hot spells, and without severe freezes. There were 
frequent showers, and no long wet or dry seasons. The result is that the seed-cane 
kept better than has been known for many years. Having this first and great advan- 
tage to start with, we have secured a first-rate stand of plant-cane. The spring has 
been rather too cold, but still the plant-cane is two or three weeks in advance of what 
it was last year. The stubble-cane cut before the freezes in November was injured by 
those freezes, and is backward ; but what was cut after that period is very promising. 
Up to the 13th of May we had but little to complain of, but on that day the rains set 
in and have continued up to this time, (the 31st.) There is still ample time, however, to 
make up for this loss,if we can get a few weeks’ seasonable weather. The cane has 
been growing luxuriantly all the time, and the only danger is that the grass will in- 
jure it. The corn-crop will be injured, and some will have to be given up to save the 
cane if we do not have dry weather soon. With our exotic crop much depends upon 
the advancement of the plant, and how the growing crop compares with that of pre- 
vious years becomes a question of interest. For several years I have kept a weekly 
record, which I find valuable. A quotation follows: 
“ Record for May 18, 1873: First planting of the cane in the spring averages 380 stalks 
per 100 feet. Last planting of cane in the spring averages 230. Fall-planted cane 
averages 175. First year’s stubble averages 220. Second year’s stubble averages 150. 
For the same date last year: First planting of cane in the spring averages 230 stalks 
per 100 feet. Last planting of cane in the spring averages 140. Falli-planted cane 
averages 160. First year’s stubble averages 200. Second year’s stubble averages 110.” 
I find that a record of condition three weeks later comes nearest to the final result : 
“ June 2, 1872: First planting of cane in the spring averages 330 stalks per 100 feet. 
Last planting of cane in the spring averages 250. Fall-planted cane averages 180. 
First year’s stubble averages 230. Second year’s stubble averages 170 stalks per 100 
feet. 
These records show the marked advantages to be derived from spring planting, and 
develop many facts which might otherwise pass unnoticed. In making these records 
I take, in different parts of the field, rows of an average thickness as nearly as can be 
told by the eye, measure off 100 feet, and, with the assistance of a light cane, count 
all the shoots out of the ground. These counts are averaged, and the result put down 
for that of the class to which it belongs. Up to the 1st of June the height of the cane 
is a matter of no importance, the main point being its thickness in the row. 
