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it is scarcely worth while to subtract anything from the general 
reports on accoimt of some experiments here and there, in com 
or beet sugar. Taking the reports then, as they stand, we find 
that there are forty-nine coimties 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. LaAvrence, upwards of 848,000 
pounds among a popidation of 56,000 ; Chatauque comes very 
near this, howeA'er, giving 839,000 pounds for 47,000 persons. 
There are nine counties making more than Ave do ; Putnam reports 
the smallest amoimt, only 73 pounds, probably the produce of 
one “ bush.” The whole amount of A^arious sugars made in the 
country during the year 1839-40, AV'as upAvards of 155,000,000 
of pounds ; since then, this quantity has nearly doubled, and it is 
supposed that about half the sugar noAV consumed by us, is man- 
ufactured Avithin our OAvn borders. Of course, a A'ery 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 A'arieties made m 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 CA'ery State ; DelaAvare 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 measru-e from the maple. If avc give about one-fifth of 
the whole amount, or some 31,000,000 of pounds to maple sugar, 
