Crops of Cane-Sugar, in Round Numbers, Year 1379-80. Tons. Guadaloupe......... 625,000 Egypt......... Tons. 50,000 50,000 Java (exports).. Louisiana. Brazil (exports). Manila (exports). Porto Rico. 90,000 Australia (exports). 20,000 Demerara Trinidad Barbadoes.... Total tons.. 60,000 Spain..... 15,000 55,000 Sandwich Islands (exports).... 12,000 50,000 Russia and Poland.. Total tons..... Total sugar produced in 1879, pounds.. 1,335,000 .10,386,880,000 CONSUMPTION OF SUGAR IN THE UNITED CONSUMPTION OF MOLASSES IN THE UNITED SUGAR PRODUCT OF LOUISIANA, 1823-1880. (Bouchereau's Statement.) The average weight of the hogshead is reckoned at 1,137 pounds net. TOBACCO PRODUCTION OF ALL THE STATES. Michigan.... Minnesota.. Mississippi 170 83,969 163 1,471 69,922 Total United States... 638,841 472,661,159 414,663 Statement of the Tobacco Crop of the United States for 1879, in the several STATES PRODUCING IT AS A STAPLE, showing Acreage, Production, Value of Crop in farmers' hands, Value per pound, Value per acre, and Cost of Production per pound. From the Tenth Census of the United States, 1880. It is believed that the table given above will fairly represent the question of profit and loss in the cultiva tion of tobacco in 1879 in the various states of the Union. It will be observed that Tennessee stands lowest in the column which indicates profit. This is due to the peculiar condition of the tobacco marketat the time the census was taken. Stocks oftobacco had accumulated, until prices coincided very nearly with the cost of production. All other states growing tobacco for exportation produced also some types peculiarly suited to the requirements of the domestic manufacturer, which brought good prices and elevated the general average of prices for such states. The profits in growing tobacco in Kentucky came from the production of the White Burley and yellow wrapper; in Illinois, from the production ofthe seed-leat; in Missouri, from the production of sweet fillers and White Burley; and in Virginia from the production of yellow wrappers, bright smokers," and sun-, air-, and flue cured fillers. In consequence of the low scale ofprices for shipping-leaf, and the margin for profit being reduced to such a low point, Tennessee, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, and other states growing tobacco mainly for exportation, show rela tively a diminished production. On the other hand, all those states which have grown types suitable for domestic consumption, have generally ascended rapidly in the rank of production. Pennsylvania, which wast welfth in rank in 1870, takes the third rank in 1880. Ohio passes from the fifth to the fourth, while Maryland and Tennessee descend from the fifth and third rank respectively to the seventh and fifth, and Missouri passes from the seventh to the ninth rank. Profits in the culture of tobacco have been in direct proportion, first to its suitableness to domestic consumption; and, secondly, to the amount of fertilization practiced by the growers in its cultivation. Ninety-four per cent. of all the product grown for market in 1879, north of the parallel of 39° 44', was classed as seed-lea ftobaccco; and eighty-four per cent. of the whole product of that class was grown north of the same line. The amount of seed-leaf grown in the United States reached nearly twenty per cent. of the entire product. PRODUCTION OF PIG IRON IN THE EIGHT YEARS, 1873 TO 1880, BY STATES. Statistics collected from the manufacturers by The American Iron and Steel Association. 57 296,818 326,721 266,431 181,620 230,442 274 1,389,573 1,213,133 960,881 1,009,613 1,153,356 1,342,633 1,607,76 2,083,121 103 406,029 425,001 415,893 403,277 400,398 429,991 447,751 674,257 247,698 239,056 395,61 701 2,868,278 2,689,413 2,266,581 2,093,236 2,314,585 2,577,361 3,070,875 4,295,414 Area of the Coal Fields of the United States, and Annual Production. Tons produced 1880, (Saward's es timate.) Tons proArea squareduced in 1869, (U. S. census, 1870.) Value, 1870. |