CULTURE OF THE SUGAR BEET. 



29 



CHAPTEB II. 



STATISTICS. 



The departments of France in which the culture of the beet for the pro- 

 duction of sugar is mostly confined, or where it is most active, are the 

 Aisne, ISord, Pas-de-Calais, Somme, Oise, and Ardennes. Beets are 

 grown for the production of sugar in the other departments, it is true, 

 but the manufacture is carried on there to a limited extent as compared 

 with those mentioned, and it is a rare exception to find it in any depart- 

 ment south of the river Loire or east of the Saone. These facts are il- 

 lustrated in the following table, showing the number of factories in 

 existence and the quantities of sugar (in tons of 2,200 pounds) produced 

 in the different departments in the campaign of 1877-'78 : 



Departments. 



Aisne 



Nord : 



Pas-de-Calais 



Somme 



Oise ."". 



Ardennes 



Aube 



Cher T. 



COted'Or 



Eure 



Haute Marne 



Haute Saone 



Loiret 



Marne 



Meurthe-et-Moselle 



Mouse. 



Nievre 



Pu v-de-Dome 



Saone-et-Loire 



Seine Inf erienre 



Seine-et-Marne 



Seine-et-Oise 



Deux Sevres 



Eure-et-Loire 



Tonne , '. 



Total 



Rasping works 



Factories with rasping works 



No. of 



lactor- 



ies. 



91 



156 



96 



65 



40 



11 



2 



1 



4 



4 



1 



3 



1 



6 



2 



1 



1 



5 



3 



1 



14 



9 



1 



2 



1 



Production. 



Tons. 

 83, 500 

 99, 500 

 61, 000 

 54,500 

 33,500 



143 

 59 



58,000 



390, 000 



This list is taken from the Liste Generate des Fabriques de sucre, pub- 

 lished at the office of the Journal des Fabricants de Sucre, in Paris. The 

 total number of factories given here varies considerably from that given 

 in the official statistics of the condition of the industry in France and 

 referred to as factories in active operation, which would seem to indi- 

 cate the existence of a number of idle works. 



From figures we have been able to obtain from various sources we 

 have constructed the following table, showing the number of factories 

 in existence and the quantities of sugar produced in France for the dif- 

 ferent years from 1835 to the present time. The portion of the table 

 for the years 1840 to 1875, inclusive, was constructed by a writer in the 



