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It is thought that less than half the orchards in the State have yet 

 come into full bearing; many are just beginning, and many more have 

 not yet reached that point. Hence there is a certain prospect of a 

 rapid increase in average production. 



Sugar-consumption in the United States. — The annual state- 

 ment of the sugar-trade of 1874, by the New York Commercial List, 

 shows the receipt of foreign cane-sugar as amounting to 652,596 tons, 

 against 636,497 in 1873. New York received 431,315 tons, an increase 

 of 54,746 tons ; Boston, 69,479 tons, a decrease of 24,508 tons ; Phila- 

 delphia, 38,854 tons, a decrease of 14,440 tons ; Baltimore, 77,201, a de- 

 crease of 19,396 tons; New Orleans, 27,141 tons, an increase of 10,903 

 tons; other ports, 15,606 tons, a decrease of 1,206 tons. The ton in this 

 statement is 2,240 pounds. The foreign sugar trade appears to be con- 

 centrating at New York and New Orleans, the other ports showing a 

 heavy decline. 



The stock on hand at the beginning of 1874 and 1873, respectively, 

 was 71,451 tons and 41,803 tons, making the total supply of the two 

 j^ears, respectively, 724,047 tons and 679,300 tons. Of this supply 

 12,045 tons were exported in 1874, against 15,124 tons in 1873, leaving 

 the stock available for home consumption in 1874, 712,002 tons, against 

 664,176 in 1873. Of this available stock there were left over at all the 

 ports January 1, 1875, 50,133 tons, against 71,451 January 1, 1874, 

 showing the total amount of foreign sugar consumed or distributed for 

 consumption in 1874 at 661,889 tons, against 592,725 the previous year. 

 The increased consumption in 1874 was 69,144 tons, while the increase 

 of 1873 over 1872 was 25,152 tons. But the consumption of domestic 

 cane sugar in 1874 was only 48,500 tons, or 10,800 tons less than in 1873, 

 making the total consumption of cane sugar of all sorts 710,369 tons in 

 1874, against 652,025 tons in 1873, and 637,373 tons in 1872. That is, 

 the increase amounted to 58,344 tons in 1874, against 14,652 tons in 1873. 



The above figures do not include the States and Territories on the 

 Pacific coast. The consumption of cane sugar in these States during 

 1874 is estimated at 30,046 tons, making, for the whole country, 

 740,415 tons of cane-sugar. Add, for sugar made from molasses, 43,600 

 tons ; for maple-sugar, 15,000 tons ; for beet-root, sorgho, and other 

 miscellaneous kinds, 2,000 tons ; and the total amount of all sorts of 

 sugar consumed in 1874 was 801,015 tons, against 740,525 tons in 1873, 

 an increase of 60,490 tons, or nearly one-twelfth. 



The population of the United States, according to the ninth census in 

 1870, was 38,500,000. Allowing 3 per cent, annual increase, about the 

 average prior to the late civil war, and the aggregate of 1871 would be 

 about 39,666,000 ; 1872, 40,875,000 ; 1873, 42,000,000. During 1874 the 

 decline of foreign immigration materiallj^ checked the increase of pop- 

 ulation, leaving an aggregate of about 43,000,000. During 1870 the 

 total consumption of cane sugar alone was 1,188,000,000 pounds, or about 

 30.9 pounds per capita ; during 1871, 1,412,623,360 pounds, or 35.6 

 pounds per capita; during 1872, 1,427,715,520, or 34.9 pounds per 

 capita; during 1873, 1,460,937,000 pounds, or 34.8 pounds per capita ; 

 1874, 1,591,236,560 pounds, or 37 pounds per capita. Adding about 

 200,000,000 pounds per annum for molasses-sugar, maple-sugar, beet- 

 sugar, «&c., and the annual consumption per capita will be about 5 

 pounds greater than cane sugar alone, as stated above. This rapid 

 increase in sugar consumption is one of the remarkable facts showing 

 the drift of our civilization. 



French forestry-statistics.— According to a semi-official note in 

 the Journal des D6bats, the total forest surface under governmental su- 



