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domestic strength to the prosecution of this valuable industry. 

 Taking up the inquiry, however, upon broader grounds, it 

 may suffice to point out the fact that the beet- root contributes 

 more than one fourth of all the sugar now used in the world, 

 having in many European markets nearly supplanted the 

 sugar-cane, as affording convincing proof of its being a paying 

 industry. Hence, the conditions of success being the same, 

 there can be no reason to doubt that, once introduced 

 into these colonies, the extraction of sugar from beet would 

 soon grow into a staple manufacture of the first magnitude. 

 Much, of course, would depend upon the Legislature, in the 

 recognition of its national imjjortance by sanctioning only 

 such fiscal measures in relation to the undertaking as should 

 have the effect of imparting a direct stimulus and encourage- 

 ment to this most important manufacture. 



