ere this established in America. Sugar cane has never 

 been able to supply our home demand with sugar, 

 whilst the beet has, in Europe, permitted for years an 

 immense export of sugar. We fear that but few of 

 our readers realize the exact condition of the home 

 sugar production from various sources, consumption 

 and importation. With the view of rendering it com- 

 prehensible, we give a table based on official data, for 

 example : 



In every State, with two exceptions, /. e., Ten- 

 nessee and South Carolina, there has been a falling off 

 in ten years. In Mississippi, for example, this has 

 been 1000 per cent. The table shows that, while the 

 total home production has not regularly diminished, 

 it has practically, for the reason that nearly 30,000,000 

 pounds less are made to-day than twenty years ago. 



The production in Louisiana was in 1860 one- 

 third of the total (as before stated), but to-day it is so 

 small as to be doubtful of ever again attaining this same 

 proportional growth. One curious fact relating to our 

 home sugar production is, that whilst it has practically 

 yearly decreased the population augmented, and the 

 production remaining the same, the total exportation 

 of sugar has increased; it was 4,466,031 pounds in 

 1860, whilst it was 54,073,814 in 1877. 



Whilst our total imports were in 1860 but 

 694,879,795 pounds, in 1877, for example, they had 

 increased over one hundred per cent, and were 

 1,623,973,537 pounds. In 1863, on account of the 

 war, there was a slight falling off; but from 1868 

 to the present day the increase has been very steady, 

 with little or no fluctuation. 



During these same years the exportation of for- 

 eign sugars has fallen in 1863 from 34,016,070 pounds, 

 to 3,122,956 pounds in 1877, from which period it has 

 somewhat increased. 



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