As has been said, the growing season for cane in Louisiana is limited and the harvesting is done before the plant has attained its full maturity. Whether or not this has any effect upon the flavor of the sugar and molasses produced is a moot point. It is none the less true, however, that the Louisiana “Clarifieds” and the so-called New Orleans molasses possess a flavor distinctively their own. In the plantation fields, too, the scientists have worked wonders. To illustrate the benefit resulting from the application of modern methods to the cultivation of cane, in 1885 the average yield of cane per acre in Louisiana was about three-quarters of a ton, while in 1909 the average yield per acre in cane was about 20 tons, the recovery of sugar per ton of cane over 157 pounds, or 3140 pounds of sugar per acre. The Louisiana state experiment station was established by the sugar planters at Audubon park, New Orleans, in 1885 and endowed for a term of years. This institution has grown in importance until at the present time it has ample grounds, well-equipped laboratories and a sugar house with an installation of the latest and best sugar-manufacturing machinery, all directed and operated by the students of the institution. Here is carried on the work of developing seedlings, improvement of cane varieties, investigation of cane diseases, together with the study of all questions of bettering plantation and factory methods. The sugar production of Louisiana in long tons from 1860-61 to the present time is as follows: 1860-61 117,431 1861-62 235,856 1862-63 43,232 1863-64 39,690 1864-65 5,331 1865-66 9,287 1866-67 21,074 1867-68 19,289 1868-69 42,617 1869-70 44,382 1870-71 75,369 1871-72 65,635 1872-73 55,891 1873-74 46,078 1874-75 60,100 1875-76 72,958 1876-77 85,102 1877-78 65,835 1878-79 106,909 1879-80 88,836 1880-81 121,886 1881-82 71,304 1882-83 136,167 1883-84 128,318 1884-85 94,372 1885-86 127,958 1886-87 80,858 1887-88 157,970 1888-89 144,878 1889-90 128,343 1890-91 215,843 1891-92 160,937 1892-93 201,816 1893-94 265,836 1894-95 317,306 1895-96 237,720 1896-97 282,009 1897-98 310,447 1898-99 245,511 1899-00 147,164 1900-01 270,338 1901-02 321,676 1902-03 329,226 1903-04 228,476 1904-05 355,530 1905-06 336,751 1906-07 188,571 1907-08 302,855 1908-09 273,178 1909-10 269,431 1910-11 263,308 1911-12 315,066 1912-13 137,119 1913-14 261,337 1914-15 216,696 1915-16 122,768 PORTO RICO