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our cold season of years past, has disappeared from among 

 us no loss, although a very soft cane, and easily expressed. 

 The objection to the blue striped cane, it is very hard to 

 grind, and really gives but little juice at best ; it, however, 

 grows higher, and is adapted to lower grounds, to moister 

 soils, and shorter seasons, and the plants are much easier 

 preserved for the next year. Light frost upon the cane im- 

 proves the juice, and we have known the green cane upon 

 Sapelo Island, for a few days, give juice that gave 13 by the 

 hydrometer when three pounds of juice made a pound of su- 

 gar; no cane in Jamaica ever did more." The blue ribbon 

 is the most prolific and most extensively cultivated T&riety 

 on the rich lands of Louisiana. The Otaheite is largely 

 raised, and with the Creole or Brazilian, (now nearly super 

 seded,) makes up the cultivated varieties of the United States. 

 THE CANE COVERER recently invented by Mr. Bryan, it 

 is affirmed will save a large amount of labor, a boy and span 

 of horses covering with it 10 acres in a day, and it is equally 

 efficient in removing the earth from the cane. The hydraulic 

 press has been lately introduced for expressing the cane juice, 

 which it does at the rate of 0000 gallons in every 10 hours, 

 either by manual labor or with the aid of a couple of mules, 

 The advantages claimed for it are numerous and striking. 

 The application of steam to the manufacture of sugar, haa 

 been introduced into Louisiana quite recently, by Mr. Riel- 

 lieux, by which 18,000 Ibs. were made in 24 hours, with 

 great economy and advantage. 



MAPLE SUGAR. 



The rock, hard or sugar ^maple tree (Acer Saccharinum} 

 is among our most beautiful shade, and most valuable forest 

 trees, and it stands next to the sugar cane in the readiness, 

 and abundance with which it yields the material for cane 

 sugar. When refined, there is no difference either in appear- 

 ance or quality between the sugar from the cane, the maple 

 or the beet. In the brown state, the condition in which it is 

 sent to market, when made with care and formed into solid 

 cakes, it retains its peculiar moisture and rich aromatic flavor, 

 which makes it more acceptable to the nibblers of sweets, 

 than the most refined and highly sented bon-bons of the con- 

 fectioner. The quantity made in this country, is very large, 

 though from the fact of its domestic consumption, and its sel- 

 dom reaching the large markets, there is no estimate of the 

 the aggregate production which will come very near the 



