10 TflK CHINKSK SUGAIl-CANE. 



reason why sugar is so much dearer than for- 

 merly. 



According to the statement of the New York 

 Shipping and Commercial List, the total import- 

 ation of foreign sugars into the United States for 

 the year ending December 31, 18e55, was 382,- 

 786 hogsheads, of 1200 pounds each; in 1854, 

 309,726 hogsheads. According to Hunt's Mag- 

 azine, the total decrease of cane-sugar in 1855, 

 as compared with 1854, v^as 11 per cent. The 

 amount of sugar consumed in the United States 

 in 1855 was about 766,000 hogsheads, of 1200 

 pounds each. The greatest amount produced in 

 Louisiana in one season being 449,324 hogs- 

 heads, of 1000 pounds each. In addition to this, 

 the amount of maple-sugar made in the United 

 States in 1850 was 34,253,436 pounds. Of 

 this. New York produced 10,357,484 ; Vermont, 

 5,980,955 ; Ohio, 4,588,209 ; and so on, every 

 state producing some. 



I might go r:~-'^ '^^tensively into statistics, if 

 necessary, to show the importance and value of 

 this crop ; but deem it unnecessary, as every per- 

 son is compelled to own that it is second to few 

 other crops. And though we see, by the facts 

 presented, that the culture of sugar-cane and the 

 manufacture of sugar from the maple has greatly 



