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Table showing the gradual reduction of the 'price of hcet sugar. 



According to the same authority the total production of sugar in the 

 world is not far from two millions eight hundred thousand tons, in the 

 following proportions : 



Total 'production of sugar from all sources. 



Kind of sugar. 



Percentage. 



Amount. 



Sugar cane 



Beet 



Palm 



Maple 



Totals 



Tons. 



2,000,000 



630,000 



140,000 



30,000 



2,800,000 



Thus it will be seen that the beet furnishes nearly one-quarter of the 

 sugar produced in the world. 



A recent French writer thus observes :* 



* M. Dureau, Rapports du Jury International, Exposition Universelle dc 1867, Vol. XI, p. 284, 



