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KEPORT OF THE COMMISSIONEE OF AGRICULTURE. 



and the returns for fiuantitie.s of sugar and sirup produced iu each cen- 

 sus year of the last tbroe completed decades are as follows : 



The total product of maple-sugar reported for the census of 1840 was 

 35,105,705 pounds. The proportions of sugar and sirup manufactured 

 vary considerably from year to year, but, so far as indicated by the above 

 table, it appears that in Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Missouri, New Hamp- 

 shire, and Ohio about one-half of the product in weight and value is in 

 the form of sirup. In Kentucky the proportion of sirup is consider- 

 ably greater, while in Vermont it is much less. The Massachusetts 

 census for 1875 reports the value as well as the quantity of both sugar 

 and sirup : the former averages 11.3 cents per pound ; the latter, $1,183 

 per gallon 5 making 1 gallon of sirup very nearly equal in value to lOi 

 l^ounds of sugar. If we estimate 10 pounds of sugar as the average 

 equivalent for 1 gallon of sirup throughout the country, the production 

 of the leading States reported in 1870, reckoned in pounds, is as follows: 

 Vermont, 9,014,532 ; Is^ew York, 7,152,520; Ohio, 0,995,248; Indiana, 

 3,611,132; Xew Hampshire, 1,909,544; Pennsylvania, 1,939,707. The 

 total products returned in 1870 and 1860, estimated in the same way, are 

 equivalent, respectively, to 37,054,215 and 50,090,095 pounds. 



According to a statement in the Agricultural lieport by the Commis- 

 sioner of Patents in 1853, (p. 234,) in 1811, while Vermont produced only 

 1,200,000 pounds, Kentucky produced 2,471,047, and Ohio 3,033,800. 



The principal official State returns forwarded to this Department since 

 the last national census are as follows : Massachusetts reported in 1875 

 1,082,202 pounds of maple-sugar, valued at $123,013, and 23,015 gallons 

 of sirup, valued at $27,235. In Michigan the quantity returned for the 

 national census of 1870 was 56 per cent, less than in 1800 ; but 4,319,793 

 pounds were returned for 1874, exceeding the product of 1800 by 6.6 per 

 cent. In JNIinnesota the State return for 1870 was considerably larger 

 than that reported for the national census, being 231,002 pounds of sugar, 

 and 17,394 gallons of sirup. In 1871 the sugar product was 141,982 

 pounds; sirup, 22,923 gallons. The average annual product for the next 

 three years was 100,275 pounds and 17,394 gallons. Iowa returned for 

 1874 132,204 pounds and 19,013 gallons. 



