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molasses in exchange, knowing that they would make in finitely more in that way than they would by following the Tribune's advice and cultivating sorghum. Singularly enough this product of agriculture, which the Northern fanatic hailed as the means of Northern independence of slave-grown sugar and molasses, and which was rejected by the North, becomes a most important crop for the South. It has in a measure met a most serious want of our Southern people, cut off as they are from the West Indies and from New Orleans. --The past year it was but partially cultivated by the farming community, yet the supply of molasses it has yielded has been very considerable and most opportune. It cannot be too earnestly pressed upon their attention. Its extensive cultivation will do immense good, while those who cultivate it will very probably make more money from it than any other crop — certainly in proportion to the ground appropriated to it. We believe thus far the sap of this cane has