Thirteen samples of purple or striped cane by same au-
 thority show:
 Sucrose .................. 17.12 per cent.
 Glucose ................. I.o8 per cent.
 Coefficient of purity......... .88.o2 per cent
 Equal to 13 per cent. or 260 lbs. pure sugar per ton of
 cane.
 A recent analysis by Prof. H. W. Wiley, chief chemist
 U. S. Dept. of Agrl., shows:
 Sucrose .................. 12.20 per cent.
 Glucose .................. .50 per cent.
 Coefficient of purity ........ .8.90 per cent.
 Equal to 9.17 per cent. or 183 lbs. pure sugar per ton of
 cane.

 The estimate of thirty tons of cane per acre, with a yield
 of I60 lbs. of granulated sugar per ton, is therefore well
 within the limits for practical work.


 STATISTICS OF SUGAR.
 PRODUCED AND CONSUMED IN THE UNITED STATES.
 Taken from the report of the U. S. Agricultural De-
 partment, 1900.
 Total sugar produced in the United States
 including Hawaii and Porto Rico.
 Beet sugar 75,859 tons, cane sugar
 66i,ooo tons (of 2,240 hbs.) ....... 1,65o,563,96o lbs.
 Total importation ............. 4,018,086,530 Ibs.

 Total American consumption, 1900.5,668,650,490 lbs.

 Five thousand six hundred and sixty-eight million pounds.

 Total produced in America, including that of the islands,
Hawaii and Porto Rico, z9 per cent. of the American con-
sumption.