. Agriculture and the farming business . sugar region.—By far the greater part of thesugar used in this country is made from sugar cane. Onlya small proportion of what we require is produced here,most of it being imported from the West Indies and othertropical or semi-tropical regions. Practically all our home-grown cane sugar is raised in the following states, whichare named in the order of the amount produced: Louis-iana, Georgia, Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, SouthCarolina, California, North Carolina. Of these states,Louisiana has produced more than twice as much as theother eight s
. Agriculture and the farming business . sugar region.—By far the greater part of thesugar used in this country is made from sugar cane. Onlya small proportion of what we require is produced here,most of it being imported from the West Indies and othertropical or semi-tropical regions. Practically all our home-grown cane sugar is raised in the following states, whichare named in the order of the amount produced: Louis-iana, Georgia, Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, SouthCarolina, California, North Carolina. Of these states,Louisiana has produced more than twice as much as theother eight states combined. Beet sugar region.—The beet sugar region is farmore widely distributed than the cane sugar region. Thefollowing are some of the leading beet sugar states: Colo-rado, California, Michigan, Utah, Idaho, Wisconsin, Mon-tana, Ohio, Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska. This wide areaindicates that sugar beets will thrive in a great variety ofclimates and soils. Sorghum sugar regions.—Sorghum also thrives over 222 AGRICULTURE AND. « THE FARMING BUSINESS 223 a wide range of territory, as will be seen from the dis-tribution of the following leading sorghum producingstates: Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Texas, NorthCarolina, Illinois, Oklahoma, Indiana, Alabama, Missis-sippi, Louisiana and Ohio. Maple sugar region.—The leading maple sugar statesare Vermont, New York and Ohio. New Hampshire,Pennsylvania, Michigan and Indiana also produce consider-able quantities. Producing Cane Sugar The cane sugar plant, which grows much like corn, wasoriginally a tropical plant, but most varieties under culti-vation will thrive best in a semi-tropical climate. Somevarieties will even succeed in temperate regions. Terri-tories having a temperature of from sixty-five degrees toninety degrees Fahrenheit during midsummer are consid-ered best. Under good conditions the plants will growfrom twelve to twenty feet high. Sugar cane was first introduced into Europe by theMoors. It was known as th
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