124 THE CHINESE SUGAR CANE. 
Brought forward, - - $99,600 
Corn, 9000 barrels for consumption on the es- 
tate; wood: 8000 cords for the engine house. 
Kistimated value j - - - - 14,400 
Total products of the estate, - $114,000 
“This plantation shows the average production of the 
best class of sugar estates in Louisiana, the largest of 
which, in 1852, yielded a revenue of one hundred and 
fifty-two thousand and fifty dollars; but these estates 
increase the value of their products by the aid of costly 
machinery, not used on the ordinary plantations.” 
This article being written four years ago, does not, of 
course, give a true idea of the profits of the same estate 
the present season ; for, whereas the running expenses of 
the estate are about equal to the above, the prices of sugar 
and syrup have greatly increased, and the gross receipts 
must be by so much the same augmented. 
THE NEW SUGAR MILL OF MESSRS. HEDGES, FREE, & CO. 
Messrs. Hedges, Free, & Co., of Cincinnati and Phila- 
delphia, who so kindly forwarded to me the pamphlets 
received by their house from the Honorable John Y. 
Mason, and which have proved so extremely valuable to 
the elaboration of this work, have recently invented a 
three roller vertical mill for expressing the juice of the 
sorgho and imphee, and in reply to a request to furnish 
cuts to illustrate this work, I received the following: 
