154 PLAIN AND PLEASANT TALK 



In Mur'mn county, four of the first sugar-making townships, 

 Warren, Lawrence, Centre and Franklin, are not reckoned. 

 If wr suppose these four townships to average as much as 

 the others in Marion county, they produced 77,648 Ibs., 

 and instead of putting Marion county down at 97,064 it 

 should be 174,712 Ibs. It is apparent from this case, that 

 in Indiana the estimate is far below the truth ; and if it is 

 half as much so in the other eight States enumerated,* 

 then 22,464,799 is not more than a fair expression of the 

 maple-sugar alone. 



Lousiana is the first sugar-growing State in the Union. 

 Her produce, by the statistics of 1840, was 119,947,720, or 

 nearly one hundred and twenty million pounds. The States 

 of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and Flo- 

 rida, together, add only 645,281 pounds more. 



Cane-sugar in the United States 120,593,001 Ibs. 

 Maple " " " 24,495,652 " 



Thus about one-sixth of the sugar made annually in the 

 United States is made from the maple-tree.f It is to be 



* Dr. J. C. Jackson puts Vermont at 6,000,000 Ibs. per annum, while 

 the census only gives about 4,000,000. 



f The data of these calculations, it must be confessed, are very uncer- 

 tain, and conclusions drawn from them as to the relative amounts of 

 sugai produced in different States, are to be regarded, at the very best, 

 as problematical. We extract the following remarks from an article in 

 the Western Literary Journal, from the pen of Charles Cist, an able sta- 

 tistical writer : 



" It is not my purpose to go into^an extended notice of the errors in the 

 statistics connected with the census of 1840. A few examples will serve to 

 show their character and extent. In the article of hemp, Ohio is stated to 

 produce 9,080 tons, and Indiana 8,605 either equal nearly to the pro- 

 duct of Kentucky, which is reported at 9,992 tons, and almost equal, when 

 united, to Missouri, to which 18,010 tons are given as the aggregate. 

 Virginia is stated to raise 25,594 tons, almost equal to botli Kentucky 

 and Missouri, which are given as above at 28,002 tons. Now the indis- 

 putable fact is, that Kentucky and Missouri prodilce more than hemp all 

 the rest of the United States, and ten times as much as either Ohio, Indiana 



