STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



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Austrian florins. 



Cost of beets 



Cost of manufactured sugar .... 

 Cost of manufactured molasses 



Cost of spodumene 



Cost of coal 



Cost of wood 



Cost of peat 



Cost of coke 



Cost of wages 



Tax 



Total expenses 



Value of the sugar produced... 



For interest, profit, etc 



3,414,000 



2.582,000 



72,700 



3,844,600 



2,601,100 



53,600 



10,800 



1,200 



3,500,000 



6,116,600 



22,196,600 



36,407,000 



14,210,400 



" Thirty-nine and three-tenths per cent, of the entire income, there- 

 fore, remains for interest on the capital and profits of the business." 



The following observations are extracted from a later and unpub- 

 lished dispatch from Mr. Post, now in the archives of the State Depart- 

 ment, and supplied for this report : 



'' The production and export of beet root sugar is increasing, and the 

 history of its increase is best shown by the following table : 



Table showing the quantity of beets taxed and used during the last three 



years in Austria. 



t *40 95-100 kr. per Vienna centner. 



