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The yield of sugar to the acre of beets averages nearly two thousand 

 five hundred pounds. 



The Sacramento Company has this year one thousand two hundred 

 acres in beets, which will yield about sixteen tons to the acre, and pro- 

 duce one thousand six hundred tons of sugar. 



The Soquell Company has abont one thousand two hundred acres in 

 beets; the cold coast wind, however, interfered with their growth, but 

 we are informed that a fine article of sugar is being produced. Their 

 failures in former years are due to mistakes caused by inexperience. 



Simultaneously with the complete success of the two California beet 

 sugar manufactories comes a report announcing the complete triumph of 

 the Illinois company at Freeport. Connected with this result is the signi- 

 ficant fact that it has been brought about by the abandonment of every- 

 thing foreign pertaining to the culture of the beet. American farming 

 implements and energy have been able to deliver beets at two dollars 

 and eighty cents per ton, which is one dollar and twenty cents less 

 than the average cost per ton in France and Germany. 



A sugarie of the capacity of one hundred tons of beets per day 

 (twenty-four hours), yielding eight tons of refined sugar, costs for — 



Machinery 



Buildings 



Working capital 



Calculations on one hundred thousand acres. 



Twenty thousand tons beets at four dollars per ton... $80,000 



Twenty white men, at seventy-five dollars \ 18 000 



Fifty Chinese men, at twenty dollars j 



Three foremen 3,000 



One Superintendent 3,000 



Bones and lime 7,500 



Wear and tear 7,500 



Fuel 25,000 



Barrels 16,000 



Interest on one hundred and twenty thousand dol- 

 lars, at one per cent 14,400 



8174,500 



Twenty thousand tons beets yield 



Deduct expenses as above 



Net profits 



Exclusive of refuse for distillery and feed. 



875,000 

 20.000 

 25,000 



$120,000 



$352,000 

 174,500 



$177,500 



