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Excerpts: Under the auspices of the Department of Agriculture, experiments in the culture of jute have been successfully tried in South Carolina. Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. These trials conclusively established the fact that wherever in the Southern States there is a hot, damp climate, and a moist soil of sandy clay or alluvial mold, jute can be profitably raised. It is probable that much of the land now devoted to the growth of cotton, rice, and sugar-cane would yield larger returns if applied to the culture of jute. The yield was in several cases at the rate of 3,500 pounds to the acre.