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All kinds of products are being tried — cotton, tobacco, ramie, etc. — 

 but with the foregoing figures in view, can it be doubted that the beet- 

 root will pay them better than any of the above? 



And that it is necessaiy for them to grow it is shown by the fact tba^ 

 the table of the principal domestic exports of the Sandwich Islands for 

 the quarter ending September thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy- 

 four, prepared by the Collector General of Customs, shows a decrease 

 for the quarter, as compared with the corresponding period of eighteen 

 hundred and seventy-three, of nearly two million pounds of sugar, 

 which must be supplied in some manner. 



In eighteen hundred and seventy-seventy-one, the price of refined 

 sugar was on an average seventeen cents per pound in the United 

 States, while in France and Germany it was only ten and one third 

 cents. 



Considering that the average consumption per capita is thirty-five 

 pounds per annum, the great disadvantage of present prices to the con- 

 sumer is evident. 



Experience has proved that this industry can be prosecuted with 

 great success in California, where the beet-root can be produced in large 

 quantities, and of exceptional richness. 



The manufacture of sugar from the beet will undoubtedly prove not 

 only a scientific, but a commercial success, in this State. The annexed 

 table illustrates the gradual annual increase in importance and extent 

 of this industry in Europe: 



Countries. 



1865-66. 



Pounds. 



1870-71. 



Pounds. 



France 



Germany , 



Austria and Hungary 



Russia and Poland 



Holland, Sweden, and Italy 

 Belgium 



274,000,000 



185,700,000 



71,150,000 



80,000,000 



4,000,000 



41,000,000 



295,000,000 

 285,000,000 

 190,000,000 

 135,000,000 

 25,000,000 

 55,000,000 



The following table shows the enormous increase in the consumption 

 of sugar and molasses in the United States in ten years: 



