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bulk of them go to show, that an ordinarily good soil will as 
surely grow a good crop of it, as of Indian corn ; and with but 
a trifle, if any more labor. And further, that a good ordinary 
crop will yield two hundred gallons of good syrup per acre, 
besides several tons of fodder and seed, from the surplus 
leaves and tops of the stalks. 
The experience already had also shows that, even with the 
imperfect machinery and information of the first experiments, 
the Cane has been grown and the syrup manufactured, at an 
average expense of not over twenty-five cents per gallon ; being 
a saving of at least one hundred per cent, of what a similar 
southern article would cost the merchants and the dealers of 
the country delivered in store ; and nearly twice that saving to 
such consumers as produce it for their own use, and thereby 
save all intermediate profits. 
If Sorghum has done this much for our people 4 4 in the green 
tree, what may we not expect in the dry?” Highly important 
results to our State, as well as to the whole North-West, are 
confidently predicted for this new item of production, in the 
future, and that at no distant day. 
In all probability there will be ten times the amount of it 
cultivated the present year, that there was during the past. 
Judging from the entire sucess of many experiments of graining 
the syrup into tolerable brown sugar, no reasonable doubt seems 
to exist, as to its being generally done, as easily as the maple 
syrup, with a little more experience of cultivation, grinding and 
boiling, and with more suitable apparatus. That our people 
will soon be able to raise their entire sugar and molasses crop, 
and, may be, a surplus for exportation, seems by no means im¬ 
probable. The supplying of the home demand merely, will 
prove a saving of some millions per annum to the State, of 
money kept at home and paid for home labor. 
The seed of the Hungarian Grass (Millium), a forage plant 
that has been attracting considerable attention for the last two 
years, in Iowa and other prairie districts, was also extensively 
distributed over all parts of the State, last spring. What de- 
