Iron County Record | 1927-04-15 | Page 8 | Sugar Cane in America

f Sugar Cane in ift America Sugar cane was Introduced Into the theN N New w world shortly after Its discovery und and it N is recorded Unit In 1313 1318 many sugar pug mills were In III operation on th the I. I island lun of l Do Domingo in In go It was as not lIot until 1751 however that the tho plant was vo grown In America as ns D a re- re Milt of I tIn h. h of or cuttings cutting hy by Jesuits In Louisiana lana from tint that time It was WI cultivated le In III n II desultory manner mannet man net ner until the end of th Ih the Eighteenth century when 11 the llie failure of Indigo und and other crops I forced the Louisiana planters to 10 turn their heir attention atu to to 10 the of agar a n a. a a II source of revenue re I 1 of or the American Amer ican sugar rife may be said to 10 date ale froll froli 1 17 in when ben the first sue sue- i mill h tiem operations on a plantation about six 1111 miles from New Orleans