A hand-book of Louisiana, giving general and agricultural features . XXVlll POUNDS Jeflferson 7,484,437 Lafayette 19,S61,S9o Lafourclie 72,356,638 Orleans 4,691,456 Plaquemines 30,589,962 Iointe Coupee 3,066,680 Hapiiles 6,681,169 St. Bernard 3,850,000 St. Charles 20,900,020 St. Martin 61,258,480 St. John 34,147,557 St. Landv 2,144,436 St. James 13,144,887 St. Mary 121,013,331 Terrebonne ^ 59,833,028 Vermillinn 4,365,721 West Baton Eouge 32,271,899 Other Parishes 2,259,997 The above gives a total crop of 720,554,948 pound.!of sugar, and was accompanied by a crop of molasses of23,727,735 gallon
A hand-book of Louisiana, giving general and agricultural features . XXVlll POUNDS Jeflferson 7,484,437 Lafayette 19,S61,S9o Lafourclie 72,356,638 Orleans 4,691,456 Plaquemines 30,589,962 Iointe Coupee 3,066,680 Hapiiles 6,681,169 St. Bernard 3,850,000 St. Charles 20,900,020 St. Martin 61,258,480 St. John 34,147,557 St. Landv 2,144,436 St. James 13,144,887 St. Mary 121,013,331 Terrebonne ^ 59,833,028 Vermillinn 4,365,721 West Baton Eouge 32,271,899 Other Parishes 2,259,997 The above gives a total crop of 720,554,948 pound.!of sugar, and was accompanied by a crop of molasses of23,727,735 gallons. There are now in operation 225 sugar-houses using vacuum pans, which give an output of 95per cent, of the sugar of the State, with an average of160 pounds of sugar per ton of cane ground, and over3,000 pounds of sugar per acre. The rest of the cropis harvested by Open Kettle sugar-houses, with ayield of not far from 2,000 pounds of sugar per area devoted to sugar-cane in Louisiana is ,000 acres. This can be almost indefinitely i
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