BULLETIN 486, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



GEOGRAPHIC LIMITS OF THE SUGAR-CANE INDUSTRY IN THE 



UNITED STATES. 



Climatically, the sections of the United States which are more or 

 less well adapted to the culture of sugar cane are the extreme southern 

 portion of South Carolina, all of Florida, the southern third of the 

 States of Georgia. Alabama, and Mississippi, the southern half of 

 Louisiana, and the low coastal plains of Texas. Apparently the 

 lower lying valleys of southwestern Arizona and southern California 

 are adapted under irrigation to cane culture, though it has not been 

 tried extensively in these sections. 



In the portions of the country to wdrich cane culture is restricted 

 climatically it is further limited by its soil requirements. The crop 

 can be grown profitably only where the soil is of the best. 



Table I gives the acreage in sugar cane in the several States as 

 shown by the census report of 1909, together with the total yields of 

 cane and of sugar, molasses, and sirup. By molasses is understood 

 the product from the residual liquor after removing part of the 

 sugar. Sirup is the product made without the removal of any of the 

 sugar. 



Table L- 



-Sugar-cane, sugar, molasses, and sirup production in the United States 

 in 1900. 





Area in 

 crop. 



Produc- 

 tion of 

 cane. 



Value of 

 crop. 



Farms reporting. 



Average 



area per 



farm. 



Average 



States. 



Number. 



Percent- 

 age of all 

 farms. 



yield 

 of cane 

 per acre. 





A cres. 

 476, 849 



27, 211 



16 



3,330 



12, 928 



37,046 



329, 684 



24, 861 



111 



294 



Tons. 

 6, 240, 260 



226, 634 

 55 



19, 868 



1-12.517 



317,460 



1.!H1.9!I6 



222, 600 



267 



1,494 



2 



59,865 



307, 502 



826,415,952 



1,527,166 



719 



152, 298 



1,089,698 



2,268,110 



17, 752, 537 



1,506,887 



3,467 



10, 697 



56 



434, 634 



1,669,683 



278, 233 



61,226 



8 



5,286 



19, 663 



64,458 



34, 487 



52,860 



73 



596 



1 



19, 857 



19, 718 



4.4 



23.3 



.1 



2.5 



39.3 



22.1 



28.6 



19.3 



.2 



.2 



Acres. 

 1.7 



.4 



2 

 .6 

 .7 

 .6 



9.6 

 .5 



1.5 

 .5 



Tons. 

 13.1 





8.3 





3.4 





6 





11 





8.6 





15 





9 





2.4 





5.1 









7,053 

 34,315 



11.3 



4.7 



.4 

 1.7 



8.5 





9 







States. 



In plantation mills, 

 the agricultural 



covered by 

 census. 



In factories, covered by the manu- 

 facturers' census. 





Sugar. 



Molasses. 



Sirup. 



Sugar. 



Molasses. 



Sirup. 



United States 



Pounds. 

 125, 647 



3,351 



Gallons. 

 4,153 



50 



Gallons. 

 21, 633, 579 



3, 078, 531 



1,040 



286, 637 



2, 533, 096 



5,.i:;:i,52o 



4,125,083 



2, 920, 519 



5,088 



21,677 



56 



ssi..V,s 



2, 246, 774 



Tons. 

 326, 858 



Gallons. 

 24, 587, 581 



Gallons. 

 1,449,860 



















130 

 1,339 



319 

 1,325 



740 











47,661 



22, 392 



38, 143 



1,665 

















Louisiana 



352, 497 



24, 342, 555 



a 942, 997 



Mississippi 

































5, .">2.-> 

 6,910 



250 











1,361 



245, 026 



500, 863 









a The statistics from 16 factories in Louisiana making sirup from sugar cane are not included. 



