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Sorghum. The farmers of Virginia cannot too highly estimate the importance of the crop of Chinese sugar cane. This cane was first introduced into the North some ten or fifteen years since, and was seized upon by the abolitionists as a substitute for the slave-grown cane, and its fabrics of molasses and sugar. It was urged upon the attention of farmers throughout Yankeedom, and every stimulus to its extensive cultivation was applied with great zeal. The New York Tribune devoted its most fanatical columns to the subject, and daily, for a time, shouted a declaration of independence of the South, based altogether on sorghum. But Yankeedom knew its interests too well to hearken to the ravings of the fool of the Tribune. Yankee farmers went on to cultivate corn and bacon and to raise mules for Southern planters, and to take their sugar and molasses in exchange, knowing that they would make in finitely more in that way than they would by following the Tribune's advice and cultivatin