State Agricultural Society. 



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Expenses. 



Thirty tons of beets, at five dollars per ton 



Six eords of wood for engine, at three dollars 



Thirty-one Chinamen, at eighty eents per day 



Eight men for boiling, etc., at two dollars per day 



Three engineers, eight hours each, at three dollars per day... 



Team work, etc. 



Bone black, etc 



Superin ten dent 



Re boiling syrup 



Contra. 



Sixty thousand pounds beets yielding eight per cent of sugar 

 would be forty-eight hundred pounds, at eight cents 



Sale of beet clippings, for feed, six tons, at two dollars and 

 a half. 



$384 00 



15 00 



$399 00 



Recapitulation. 



Yield of one day's work. 

 Cost of production 



$399 00 



272 80 



$126 20 



This result would give a net profit of $126 20 per day, without esti- 

 mating the value of the syrup produced, or of the large quantity of pulp 

 left after the beets are woidied through the centrifugals. 

 All of which is respectfully submitted. 



W. E. BROWN, 

 President S. V. B. S. Company. 



STATEMENT OF ROBERT WILLIAMSON, OF SACRAMENTO. 



To the Board of Judges of the State Agricultural Fair for the year eighteen 

 hundred and seventy: 



As a competitor for the gold medal in the fifth depart- 



imong the actual neces- 



Gentlemen 

 ment, I claim — 



First — That the articles exhibited by me are 

 sities of life, and also among the chief products of the country, and 

 form a very important part of our agricultural and commercial interests. 



Second — I claim to have exhibited a greater variet} 7 of products than 

 any one exhibitor in said department. 



Very respectfully, 



ROBERT WILLIAMSON. 



