MAPLE  SUGAR  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES  75 
In  the  following  table,  we  give  the  quantities  of  maple  sugar 
made  in  each  State  in  1850,  giving  the  official  reports  for  each 
State  ;  results  obtained  in  the  great  census,  published  in  1850  :— 
Maple  Sugar  made  in  the  U.  States  of  America  in  1850. 
Names  of  the  States. 
Maple  Sugar 
Number 
of  Pounds. 
Molasses ; 
Number  of 
Gallons 
Observations. 
Maine      .  . 
New  Hampshire 
Vermont  .  . 
Massachusetts 
Rhode  Island 
Connecticut 
New  York 
New  Jersey  . 
Pennsylvania 
Delaware  . 
Maryland  .  . 
Virginia  . 
North  Carolina 
South  Carolina 
Georgia    .  . 
Florida     .  . 
Alabama  .  . 
Mississippi  . 
Louisiana 
Texas  .    .  • 
Arkansas 
Tennessee 
Kentucky .  . 
Missouri   .  . 
Illinois  .    .  . 
Indiana  . 
Ohio  .    .  . 
Michigan  . 
Wisconsin 
Iowa    .    .  . 
Minnesota  Ter- 
ritory    .  . 
93,542 
1,298,863 
6,349,357 
695,525 
28 
50,796 
10,357,484 
2,197 
2,326,525 
it 
47,740 
1,227,665 
27,932 
200 
50 
it 
643 
it 
255 
a 
9,330 
158,557 
437,405 
178,910 
248,904 
2,921,192 
4,588,209 
2,439,794 
610,976 
78,407 
2,950 
34,253,436 
3,167 
9,811 
5,997 
4,693 
4 
665 
56,539 
954 
50,652 
50 
1,430 
40,322 
704 
18 
it 
tt 
5,636 
8,354 
180,325 
197,308 
19,823 
9,874 
3.182 
599,488 
|"  There  is  here  a  considerable  differ- 
ference  in  the  yield  of  molasses.  To 
what  is  it  to  be  attributed  ?  In  New 
Hampshire,  1,298,863  pounds  of  sugar, 
gave  9,811  gallons  of  molasses;  in 
Vermont,  6,349,357  pounds  of  sugar, 
furnished  only  5,997  gallons.  There 
must  certainly  be  errors  in  the  official 
reports. 
] 
States  in  which  the  sugar  cane  is 
!  cultivated,  particularly  in  Louisiana. 
*  There  only  an  insignificant  quantity  of 
maple  sugar  is  made. 
There  are  evidently  errors  here,  the 
molasses  not  having  been  reckoned. 
f  Maple  sugar  is  made  in  all  the 
J  counties  of  the  State  of  Ohio,  and 
1  throughout  almost  the  entire  extent  of 
[Indiana  and  Michigan. 
The  production  of  molasses  is  certainly 
much  greater. 
