CONTENTS. IX 



Department Bulletin No. 66. — Statistics op Sugar in the United States 

 AND ITS Insular Possessions, 1881-1912 — Continued. 

 Tables — Continued. Page. 



Sugar made, factories operated, and cane used for sugar in Louisiana, 



1911 and 1912, by principal parishes 12 



Area of sugar cane, of other principal crops, and total improved farm 



land in Louisiana, 1909, by principal sugar-producing parishes 13 



Percentage of cane acreage in Louisiana reserved for seed, 1909, 1910, 



and 1911 13 



Proportion of acreage of plant cane to other cane and average yield per 



acre of cane used for sugar in Louisana and Hawaii, 1911 and 1912. 14 

 Seasonal receipts at New Orleans of Louisiana sugar, 1902-1 to 1912-13. 14 

 Average cost of producing cane sugar in Louisiana, 1909, 1910, and 



1911 15 



Monthly price of sugar per pound at New York and New Orleans, 1909- 



1912 15 



Railroad freight rates, per 100 pounds, on refined sugar carried in car- 

 loads, over selected routes in United States, May, 1913 17 



Sugar imported into the United States from foreign countries and re- 

 ceived from Hawaii and Porto Rico, 1901-1912 17 



Percentage from each country of consignment of sugar imported into 



the United States, 1901-1912 18 



Comparison of raw and refined sugar in the imports into the United 



States, 1881-1912 18 



Imports of sugar into the United States, 1881-1912, by principal cus- 

 toms districts 19 



Production of sugar and shipments to the United States, for Hawaii, and 



Porto Rico, 1901-2 to 1912-13 19 



Sugar made and cane used for sugar in Hawaii, 1910-11 and 1912-13, 



by islands 20 



Production of sorghum sirup in the United States, 1889, 1899, and 



1909, by principal States 20 



Sorghum cane area and production in the United States, 1909, by 



principal States .• 21 



Maple sugar and sirup production in the United States, 1889, 1899, 



and 1909, by principal States 21 



Production of sugar in countries named, 1901-2, to 1911-12 22 



Percentage of the "world" sugar crop produced in each principal 



country, 1901-2, to 1911-12 23 



Percentage of cane and beet sugar in the total "world" production, 



1901-2, to 1911-12 24 



International trade in sugar, calendar years 1901-1911 24 



Department Bulletin No. 67. — ^Tests of Rocky Mountain Woods for 

 Telephone Poles. 



Pole supply in the Rocky Mountain region 1 



Material tested 3 



Green lodgepole pine : 5 



Methods of test 7 



Methods of computing results 9 



Resalts of tests 9 



Conclusions 26 



Pole tests by the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co 26 



Department Bulletin No. 68. — Pasture and Grain Crops for Hogs in 

 the Pacific Northwest. 



Introduction 1 



