The matter was referred
to the city lands committee, with which body the secretary has had
several communications with respect to the localities suggested for
memorials, the result being that the committee agreed to erect such
tablets within the city boundaries.--_Journal of the Society of Arts._
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DOMESTIC SUGAR PRODUCTION.
The value of sugar imported into the United States, is greater than
that of any other single article of commerce. In the year 1880 it
appears that over one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine million
pounds of sugar were brought here from other countries, at a cost of
nearly one hundred and twenty million dollars, including customs duty.
Moreover, the consumption of sugar, _per capita_, in this country is
rapidly increasing. It was, during the ten years next preceding 1870,
only 28 pounds on the average per annum, but, in the ten years next
following, an average of 38 pounds per annum were consumed for each
person of the population of this country. This appears to be an
increase of 35 per centum in ten years.
The subject of domestic cultivation of sugar bearing plants is,
therefore, one of great importance to this nation, and it has
accordingly engaged the attention of the U.S. Commissioner of
Agriculture, and many experiments have been made in different parts of
the country in the propagation of the various canes, roots, etc.
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