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pounds, and about 9,000,000 gallons of molasses, and 

 nearly 615,000,000, 



The cane was introduced into Georgia from 

 Otaheite in 1805, and sugar was for some time 

 produced for export, It was an object of attention 

 while it commanded ten cents per pound, but when 

 the prices declined to five or six cents, it ceased to 

 be manufactured as an article of commerce, though 

 still produced for domestic consumption. Of late 

 years a good deal of attention has been paid to its 

 cultivation in Texas and Florida. Large portions of 

 these States are well adapted to the growth of the 

 plant. The Southern and middle portions of Alabama 

 and Mississippi, as well as the Eastern portions of 

 the Carolinas, have grown the true sugar cane to 

 some extent for syrup, 



RIBBON CANE CREOLE OR MALABAR CANE, 



The introduction of the ribbon cane from Georgia 

 into the adjoining States, in 1817, by giving a much 

 hardier variety, has largely extended the area of its 

 cultivation, 



VARIETIES, 



The kind most cultivated in the United States is 

 the stripped ribbon or Java, which is by far the 

 hardiest and most enduring cane, It grows rapidly, 

 is of large size, and resists the effects of early and 

 late frosts, and the excess of rains or droughts and 

 disease, better than any other. It has, however, a 

 hard course rind, and yields juice of only medium 

 quality. The Creole, Crystaline or Malabar, was the 

 first introduced, and though of diminutive size, is a 



