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Illinois. From present indications, there will be 

 one hundred acres of Chinese Sugar-cane raised 

 in Wabash county, next year, which will save 

 the county $10,000." 



I now give the results that have attended tfie 

 growing of Chinese Sugar-cane in the New" 

 England States. Most of the accounts previously 

 given were from persons at the South and West. 

 The reason I shall not be able to give so full an 

 account of its culture and manufacture at the 

 North is that it has not been so extensively 

 tried ; in fact, but few persons, so far as I am 

 able to judge, have heretofore thought it worthy 

 of notice. Among those who have given it a 

 trial is the editor of the Amherst {N. H.) Cabi- 

 net, to whom I am indebted for the following : 



" We have frequently alluded to our experi- 

 ment in raising the Chinese Sugar-cane, from 

 seed received at the Patent Office. We are 

 entirely satisfied that it can be raised with great 

 profit in this locality, either for fodder or for the 

 making of sugar or molasses. We have in a 

 small way tested it for both, and think we can 

 satisfy the most incredulous that our farmers can 

 raise molasses and sugar to better advantage 

 than they can either corn or potatoes. Our seed 

 we received late, and planted after corn was 

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