76 



Mr. Carpenter estimated the annual expenses, including ten per cent, 

 interest on outlay, at $i8,9o7 50, to which he added twenty per cent, for 

 insurance and incidentals, making a total of $58,7G1. He also gave the 

 following as a fair estimate of the probable yearly income : 



Saj^rtr, l.-200,000 pounds, at 12 o«->nts $144,000 00 



Pulp for fee4Ung cattle. 2,700,000 pounda 2, 700 00 



Molasses, 5,000 gallons, at 35 C€nt« 1,750 00 



Eesidne* as fertilizers 1,000 00 



Total 149,4i:0 00 



A committee made a report on the history of the manufacture of beet 

 sugar in Europe, containing the following exhibit of progress in France : 

 In 182.5 France" produced o,0!)i) tons of sugar from 100 factories ; in 1836 

 she had 430 factories. 



Comfjaratim r&mlis of 1837 nnd *1B65. 



1837. 



I860. 



Yield of beets per acre 



Coat per ton 



Percentage of saccharine. - 



Sajrar produced 



Cost per poand 



Amoauf of sugar prodaced 



A NEW HAMPSHIRE FARM. 



The farm of J. B. TValker, of Concord, New Hampshire, comprises 

 three hundred acres; arable land, permanent pasture, and wood-land. 

 The tillage laud inchides one hundred and ten acres of intervale, 

 situated within three- fourths of a mile of the State-house, most of it 

 nearly level, and particularly free from obstructions to the plow; also, 

 twenty-five acres of low meadow laud, improved by drainage. Eacii 

 year he plants about .six aeres, well manured, in corn, the yield averaging 

 for a course of years fifty to sixty bushels per acre, worth $1 2.5 to 

 $L 50 per busliel. The i)re.seuce of twitch-grass roots has required a 

 heavy expense in cultivating this corn croj), compelling him to go over 

 the field three times with cultivator and hand hoe. His statement of 

 acejunt with his corn crop of ISJS .shaws a cost in cultivation of $50 

 per acre ; yet, even with this outlay, he secured a net profit of §33 04 

 I)er acre for the season, with the further promise of still greater 

 profit in succeeding crops. After hai^'esting the corn, the stubble 

 ground is plowed, harrowed, aud sown with timothy and redtop ; and 

 for several years he averages 011 this corn land two to three tou.s of ex- 

 cellent hay, with a large second growth. 



It has not been his practice of late years to follow corn with oats or 

 other grain, as such a course produces rank growth and lodging of the 

 grain, and leads to expensive and compar.itively unprofitable harvesting. 

 He grows about six acre^ of oats — mostly on inverted sod — averaging 

 fifty bushels per acre, worth seventy-five cents per bashel, at an average 

 of several year.s. Notwithstanding he is amply supplied with improved 

 farm machinery, the oats are cradled and threshed by hand, as the straw, 

 thus uuiintained in its best condition, is sold for tilling be-ds, &c., finding 

 a ready market at $14 per ton. In the autumn the stubble is turned 

 under, the land manured and sown to grass. 



Hay being the most profitjible crop for his region and individual lo- 



