Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 261, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1918 — Year’s Sugar Crop. [ARTICLE]

Year’s Sugar Crop.

The area of the sugar-cane crop of 1918 in the United States is estimated by the bureau of crop estimates to be 533,880 acres, or 12 per cent above the acreage of 1909, as reported by the census. The estimate is for ribbon cane only, and hence sorghum Is excluded. Ninety per cent of the total rlbbon-cane area is. Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. Of this total area about 53 per eent Is intended tor sugar, while the remainder, 47 per cent, is mostly intended for sirup and for planting part of the next year’s crop , , ;