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witnessed the extensive operations on the place of Gover- 
nor Hammond, which, I trust, will occur in time to per- 
mit their insertion in the first edition of this work. 
Should the season, however, continue as inauspicious as 
it has been heretofore, it may be necessary to issue the 
first edition to fill the numerous orders already received 
in advance, and defer until the second edition the report 
on the southern experiments. 
Ihave given in this chapter full details for the best 
processes of sugar making, and engravings of suitable 
apparatus, furnished expressly for the work by Mr. John 
W. Reid, of No. 11 Old Slip, New York, and made from 
drawings of articles which he furnishes to planters, so 
that in case it is proved that on our soil and in our cli- 
mate either the sorgho or the imphee may really rank as 
sugar-producing plants, our farmers and planters may be 
intelligently advised as to the steps necessary to pur- 
sue to institute sugar making experiments on a large or 
small scale. 
THE CAUSE FOR PRESENT HIGH PRICES. 
Speaking of the great need which is felt for a new 
sugar plant, the ‘New York Tribune” remarks as fol- 
lows: 
“The recent general enhancement of the current prices 
of sugars, though stimulated and swelled by speculation, 
has a genuine basis. In the first place, there is an in- 
crease of several per cent. in the population of the civil- 
ized world within the last quarter of a century, insuring 
a like increase in the natural demand for sugar. Then it 
is not doubtful that, in the general absence of wars, the 
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