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may be remedied, depending upon more scientific methods 

 of agriculture and chemical methods. Maple sugar is costly; 

 the trees yielding this product are of slow growth, and their 

 territory of cultivation limited. An adequate supply cannot 

 be expected from this source, nor from the sugar-cane of the 

 South during the present stage of this industry. 



If it is admitted that the prosperity of a country is shown 

 by its advance in agriculture, then the onward march should 

 be encouraged by every means in our power. We should look 

 to our own acres for our sugar supply, since this can become 

 practicable, and not abroad. The encouragement of a sugar 

 industry in this country is of importance, when it is considered 

 that over $100,000,000 is sent out of the country for raw sugar, 

 annually. 



The problem of how to reduce our revenue does not apply 

 to this industry; in a recent letter on a plan of tariff re- 

 vision, Mr. E. H. Ammidown says: " Legislation to reduce 

 the duty on sugar should be deferred until the conditions 

 and prospects of the whole sugar industry have been more 

 carefully investigated and are better understood. An indus- 

 try which, if established, would produce $150,000,000 in value 

 of a staple article of food required in every American house- 

 hold, and save $100,000,000 now or in the immediate future, 

 annually paid to foreign producers, such an industry, with 

 the example of France and Germany to encourage us, is of 

 too serious importance to this nation to be treated by the 

 national legislature otherwise than with the utmost caution 

 and most cautious deliberation." 



The following statistics will show the sugar and molasses 

 importation: 



For the year ending June 30, i886/ free of duty from 

 the Hawaiian Islands : 



Amount. Value. 



Molasses 61,171 gallons. $7,786.00 



Sugar 191,623,175 pounds. $9,174,612.00 



Total $9,166,826.00 



1 Bureau of Statistics, Treas. Dept. 1886. 



