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it is scarcely worth while to subtract anything from the general 
reports on account of some experiments here and there, in corn 
or beet sugar. Taking the reports then, as they stand, we find 
that there are forty-nine counties in which maple sugar is man- 
ufactured, and nine counties in the immediate neighborhood of 
New York, where none is made. The largest amount made in 
one county, is reported from St. Lawrence, upwards of 848,000 
pounds among a population of 5G,000 ; Chatauque comes very 
near this, however, giving 839,000 pounds for 47,000 persons. 
There are nine counties making more than we do ; Putnam reports 
the smallest amount, only 1 3 pounds, probably the produce of 
one " bush." The whole amount of various sugars made in the 
country during the year 1839-40, was upwards of 155,000,000 
of pounds ; since then, this quantity has nearly doubled, and it is 
supposed that about half the sugar now consumed by us, is man- 
ufactured within our own borders. Of course, a very great pro- 
portion comes from the cane plantations of Louisiana, &c., &c.; 
probably some beet and corn sugar in small quantities may be 
included in the calculations, but the tables of the last census did 
not specify the different varieties made in each State ; and our 
only guide in forming an opinion as to the total amount of maple 
sugar made in the country, must be the respective geographical 
limits of the cane and the maple. Sugar of one sort or another 
is made in almost every State ; Delaware and the District of 
Columbia are the only exceptions. We understand that maple 
sugar is made in Virginia and Kentucky, the first reporting 1,541,- 
843, the last 1,399,835 pounds of sugar; probably this is in a 
very great measure from the maple. If we give about one-fifth of 
the whole amount, or some 31,000,000 of pounds to maple sugar, 
