STATISTICS OF SUGAR, 1881-1912. 
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Table 12. — Area of sugar cane, of other principal crops, and of total improved farm 
land in Louisiana, 1909, by principal sugar-producing parishes. 
[Census.] 
Acreage of 5 principal crops. 
Improved 
Parish. 
Sugar 
cane. 
Cotton. 
Rice. 
Corn. 
Hay and 
forage. 
Total 5 
crops. 
land in 
farms. 
Acres. 
9,628 
27,852 
7,335 
2,107 
36,585 
20,764 
2,104 
12,218 
33,200 
1,653 
6,643 
3,806 
7,452 
2,335 
6,757 
20,526 
12, 669 
6,423 
11,365 
42,324 
23,797 
7,637 
10, 271 
A cres. 
7,277 
244 
26,634 
23,812 
3,252 
1,839 
Acres. 
4,867 
Acres. 
17,730 
19,888 
58, 847 
26, 701 
44, 476 
20,203 
1,595 
67,317 
28, 479 
762 
2,774 
53,071 
39,526 
941 
4,874 
12, 150 
6,534 
126,257 
37,900 
27,436 
15,745 
53,075 
13,515 
Acres. 
2,050 
7,542 
2,946 
5,617 
5,267 
5,275 
962 
4,830 
10,902 
73 
1,039 
7,342 
8,797 
1,913 
562 
7,315 
2,979 
2,903 
2,504 
17, 454 
10, 168 
1,696 
2,087 
Acres. 
41,552 
55,526 
97,572 
58,802 
93,492 
52, 640 
5,736 
106, 802 
73,983 
2,488 
17,678 
86,559 
71,217 
5,914 
16,484 
44,641 
26, 837 
212,344 
67,049 
87,620 
49, 748 
107, 736 
32, 620 
Acres. 
57, 119 
54, 069 
1,810 
565 
3,912 
4,559 
1,075 
2,508 
1,402 
126, 440 
103,481 
121.436 
Iberville 
64, 422 
14, 196 
Lafayette 
19, 929 
141,762 
86, 281 
5,187 
7,222 
4,176 
22 
725 
4,287 
4,551 
4,655 
21,592 
581 
400 
38 
29,595 
3,397 
30,397 
18, 164 
15, 420 
115, 829 
Rapides 
108, 742 
9,882 
St. Charles 
4 
99 
21, 250 
St. James 
48,755 
29, 438 
St. Landry 
55, 169 
14,699 
6 
327, 623 
St. Martin 
87,320 
St. Mary 
102.938 
Terrp.bftnnp, l , 
49, 428 
15, 733 
3,350 
177, 824 
West Baton Rouge 
39, 866 
Total, 23 parishes 
315,451 
14, 233 
205, 631 
751,380 
101,939 
215, 579 
679, 796 
911,034 
112,223 
68,588 
1,415,040 
1, 960, 814 
1,923,685 
3,352,331 
Total, Louisiana 
329, 684 
957,011 
317,518 
1,590,830 
180,811 
3,375,854 
5, 276, 016 
1 For this parish the census shows 320 less acres in "improved land" than in the 5 principal crops — 
apparently an error. 
Table 13. — Percentage of cane acreage in Louisiana reserved for seed, 1909, 1910, and 
1911} 
Number 
of planta- 
tions re- 
porting. 
Total 
area. 
Saved for seed. 
Year. 
Area. 
Per cent 
of total. 
1909 
Number. 
28 
38 
56 
Acres. 
14,832 
18,037 
32,075 
Acres. 
3,641 
3,651 
6,519 
Per cent. 
24.5 
1910 
20.2 
1911 
20.3 
Mean 
21.7 
1 Computed from report on The Sugar Industry, by F. J. Sheridan, Department of Commerce (Miscella- 
neous series No. 9) p. 2. 
