The Nevada Democrat., 1856-11-19
Chinese sugar Cane.

Occupying the shore of the Pacific, opposite
the great Empire of China, we are naturally led
to take an interest in such productions as are
introduced into our country from that quarter
Of the globe, promising to be Of advantage to
the people of the United States. The following
extract from an article in the National Lntelli-
gcacer, Washington d. c., we copy, as it relates
to valuable product recently tested in vari-
Gus localities of the South, with results as COM
muncated to the Patent Office, highly satisfac-
tory. That the genial climate of California and
her fertile plains, may at some future day,
prove an inviting field for this, and other pro-
ductiOns of the east, we hold it no utopian idea
to indulge. However this may be, experiments
SO far, go to show that this addition to our ag-
ricultural wealth. is likely to become on article
Of vast domestic value, and perhaps to supply
commodity of equal value for the purposes of
commerce. The writer says:
Among the exotic plants recently introduced
into this country by the Patent Office, in the
prosecution of its agricultural operations is
the "Chinese sugar-cane," OF ''sorgho sucre,"
Sorghum sdceharatum.) The history of its intro
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been from time to time laid before the public
through the columns of the Intelligencer and
other channels, exciting the scepticism of many
and even the, derision of some, but fortunately
awakening the curiosity and enterprise of dis
cerning and intelligent agriculturalists in vari-
GUS sections of the United States. We have
now the qualification of realizing the happy re-
suits Of the investigations and labors of this lat
ter class, in the successful cultivation it is hop
ed and believed of one of the most valuable
products of the soil that has ever engaged the
attention OF the husbandman-a product which,
there is well grounded reason for assuming, will
OF ITSELF in brief PERIOD mere than recon-
pense all the pecunary aid and labor that have
been bestowed upon the whole subject of agri-
culture by our Government, in the introduction
OF plant that may be propagated with adyan-
tage In every locality in the Union, that will
provide an essential aliment and a luxury to
every family at an exceedingly low cost, and
that may before long enable us to export to va
rlous portions of the world an article of mer-
chandise that we now import to the amount of
nearly fifteen millions of dollars year.
1t is q singular and gratifying coincidence
that the introduction of this plant, and the dis
covery of its great excellence and adaptation
to the soil and climate of many regions of the
United States, should be made at the precise
moment OF the apparent decadence of the cul-
ture OF sugar upon the plantations of the Soutb
That this may not result to the disadvantages of
the important interests involved in these plant
atlons is not only desired, but believed by those
who are fostering the cultivation of the new
plant; for it appears to be the accepted opinion
that, though the latter may prosper in any To-
cality in which maize or Indian corn succeeds
yet the soil and climate capable of producing
the sugar cane will prove the best adapted Of
al the sorgho sucre and that it will hence -four
lsh there in its greatest perfection.
A gentleman of Atalanta Georgia, gives as
the result of his first crop, crushing the cane
with horse mill, yield of four hundred and
sixty-eight gallons of syrup per acre, and he es-
Inmates that the cost of making the syrup in up
per Georgia will not exceed ten or fifteen cents
per gallon.