338 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Sec. 7. That the sum of ten thousand dollars be and the same is> 

 hereby appropriated from the general fund in the State Treasury, not 

 otherwise appropriated, to be known as the beet sugar fund, and to be 

 expended under the direction of the Commissioner of the State Land 

 Office as herein provided and the money for payment under this act 

 shall be drawn from the State Treasury on the requisition of the Com- 

 missioner of the State Land Office, which shall be presented to the 

 Auditor General, who shall draw his warrant on the State Treasurer 

 therefor, and the Auditor General shall incorporate in the State tax 

 for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven the sum of five thou- 

 sand dollars, and for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight a 

 like sum of five thousand dollars to be assessed, levied and collected 

 as other State taxes are assessed, levied and collected, which sum when 

 collected shall be placed to the credit of the general fund to reimburse 

 it for the sum herein appropriated: Provided, That if the amount of 

 bounty shall exceed the amount of ten thousand dollars for the years 

 eighteen hundred and ninety-seven and eighteen hundred and ninety- 

 eight; that the deficit be paid from the general fund not otherwise 

 appropriated 



Sec. 8. . Every person, firm or corporation that shall erect and have 

 in operation in this State a factory for the manufacture of sugar from 

 beets with a capacity of two thousand pounds of sugar or upwards 

 per day while this act is in force shall be entitled to receive from the 

 State the sum of one cent per pound for all sugar manufactured from 

 beets at such factory for a period of at least seven years from the 

 taking effect of this act. 



Approved March 26, 1897. 



CONCLUSIONS. 



The results of the experiments carried on in 1897 are very encourag- 

 ing in many respects. 



1st. The labor cost of growing an acre of beets under adverse condi- 

 tions, reckoning the cost as twenty-five cen L s an hour for man and 

 team, twelve and one-half cents an hour for a man, and eight cents 

 for a boy, was $29.40. 



2nd. The average yield per acre on the College farm was fourteen 

 tons, three hundred and twenty-eight pounds. 



3rd. The soil and climate of a large part of Michigan are well 

 adapted to raising sugar beets for manufacturing purposes. 



