CULTURE OF THE SUGAE BEET. 



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policy of the imperial government, accusing it of tyranny and imposition 

 upon the rights of the people as concerns the manufacturing interests. 

 In the course of this, report the minister remarked that — 



Mechanics and chemistry, enriched hy a crowd of discoveries and ably applied to 

 the arts, had caused rapid progress. The continental system, by forcing manufactur- 

 ers to seek upon our own territory hitherto unknown resources, brought about some 

 useful results. 



The condition in which the wars left France and her industries at the 

 beginning of 1815 necessitated the production of the revenue for the 

 support of the government from external sources, for her fields and fac- 

 tories could not then bear a tax sufficient for the purpose. The customs 

 duty this required maintained the prices of colonial staples at rates even 

 higher than those which prevailed during the preceding reign, and ope- 

 rated as a substitute for the encouragement before given by the govern- 

 ment. It was on this account that the one factory, that of M. Crespel, at 

 Arras, in the department of the Xorth, which had survived the general 

 wreck, was able in a year or two to yield to its enterprising owner and 

 director a fair income with which to retrieve his broken fortune, and to 

 again extend the industry in which it was shown he had such a deep in- 

 terest. With the profits attained by one factory he established another 

 until he finally became the proprietor often of the finest works of his time. 

 His intelligence, industry, and enterprise gave an impetus to the culture 

 and manufacture of the crop, and his example was soon followed by 

 others in different parts of the country, and factories were established 

 and worked with varying success. In 1823, Dubrunfaut published, in 

 his work on the manufacture, information concerning the condition of 

 the industry at that time, that he had been able to obtain on a tour 

 among the principal factories of the day. From this work we gather 

 the facts and figures tabulated below concerning the cost of culture of 

 the beet and of the manufacture of sugar by some of the most progress- 

 ive and successful manufacturers he had occasion to visit. 



Name of grower. 



Yield per 



acre in tons 



of 2,200 



pounds. 



Coat per 

 ton of 

 roots. 



Mathieu de Dombasle 



Count Chaptal 



Crespel 



Cafler 



Duke of Ragusa 



General Preval 



Masson 



Andr6 



Grevet-Pele 



Demars 



Average 



5.06 

 12. 45 

 10.12 

 12. 145 

 10.12 

 6.356 

 6.680 

 7.247 

 10. 777 

 15. 222 



9.611 



$5 80 

 3 68 

 3 00 



2 66 



3 36 

 3 60 

 3 44 



3 18 

 2 50 



4 00 



3 52 



