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tion, that its careful and intelligent culture would be found not 
only remunerative, but profitable, throughout most, if not all 
of the settled portions of the State. 
Therefore, for the purpose of promoting its more rapid dis¬ 
semination and culture, by the agricultural masses of the 
State, the Society obtained a considerable quantity of the seed, 
from the regions south of us, where it had been more exten¬ 
sively cultivated and well ripened, and distributed it through 
the agency of the members of the Society, the members of the 
Legislature, and such other opportunities as presented. Fur¬ 
ther, the Society offered liberal premiums for the best growths 
of the Cane, as well as for the best processes of manufacture 
and production of molasses, syrup and sugar, therefrom. 
The results of the foregoing efforts, so far as can be judged 
at this early day, have fully equalled the anticipations of all 
parties, and in fact exceeded them ; and it is a well settled 
opinion on the part of the Committee, that the experiment of 
the culture and manufacture of the Cane has been fairly and 
fully tried, by thousands of the farmers of the State, and, so 
far as heard from, with nearly uniform and satisfactory results. 
And not only has the fact of the practicability of its culture 
been well established, but, what is still more conclusive and en¬ 
couraging, a large amount of molasses, syrup, and some com¬ 
mon sugar, has absolutely been made. In fact, good judges 
estimate a saving to the State the present year, on account 
of these productions, of over a hundred thousand dollars ; no 
insignificant item in times like the present. 
What is still further gratifying in the matter, is the fact that 
in all reasonably favorable cases, the seed of the Cane ripened, 
during the past season, amply for all purposes of replanting ; 
thus fully establishing the important fact, that it can and will 
usually ripen, except upon very unfavorable soil, or in unfa¬ 
vorable seasons. 
The great and universal question first of all to be asked and 
answered in relation to it, “ Will it pay? ” is also pretty well 
settled, even by the imperfect experiments already tried. The 
