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states that the whole amount of sugar sold in 1867 in the principal 

 markets was 5,140 million pounds, besides eighteen million gal- 

 lons of sorghum molasses.* The consumption of sugar is steadily 

 increasing among civilized nations ; in France it has more than 

 doubled within the last thirty years ; in England it has doubled 

 within the last fifteen years, whilst in Germany, its consump- 

 tion has increased threefold within the same period of time. 

 Numerical statements like those of Bureau, respecting the total 

 production, are therefore not surprising; in fact, if we should 

 allow to the whole population of Europe the same liberal supply 

 of sugar, required by the citizens of the United States (30 

 pounds per head), the total amount stated would scarcely 

 suffice to meet 'one-half the demand. More than nine hundred 

 million pounds of various grades of sugar, besides from fifty to 

 sixty million gallons of sirup and molasses from sugar-cane and 

 sorghum have been annually consumed of late, representing 

 a value of nearly one hundred million dollars, of which about 

 seven-tenths are first cost, and three- tenths government taxation. 



Home Resources. 

 The sugar produced in the United States is far less than the 

 amount consumed, leaving a heavy balance for importation. 

 The production of sugar-cane in Louisiana and Texas, it appears 

 from reports of Champonnois and others, never exceeded four 

 hundred and fifty thousand hogsheads, besides twenty thousand 

 gallons of molasses ; the maple-sugar production may have 

 reached in favorable years from twenty to twenty five million 

 pounds ; the sorghum plant has thus far yielded, with but a 

 few exceptions, only molasses,! whilst the cultivation of the 

 sugar-beet for the manufacture of sugar, has just begun to 

 attract attention as worthy a more thorough trial in various parts 

 of the country. I Li presenting the above figures concerning 

 our home production, I have chosen as far as the sugar-cane 

 cultivation is concerned, the results of 1861, the most favora- 

 ble year on record. Glancing over the early history of the 



* The home consumption, particularly in the East Indies, is apparently not estimated, 

 for the home consumption of cane-sugar obtained from palms, is set down as 90,000 tons. 

 (See Hunt's Commercial Review, Vol. 39, Nov., 1858, No. 5.) 



t Mr. B. 3Ioore, of Bloomington, 111., and others, have produced a large quantity oi 

 crystallized sorghum-cane sugar. 



t The first attempt to produce beet-sugar within the United States, is credited to 

 David Lee Child, of Northampton, Mass., who made about 1,300 lbs. of sugar in 1838^ 



