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Appendices 



Total cost. 



Cost 

 per 

 acre. 



Cost 

 per 

 ton. 



Expenses. 



Rent of 238 acres at $7.00 per acre . . 



First ploughing $340.00 



Second ploughing 396.65 



Cultivating and harrowing . 500.00 



Sowing — labor 85.00 J 



Use of drill 28.80 J 



Seed, 2,830 pounds at ten cents . . . 



Thinning 



Cultivating and weed cutting, one man 

 and two horses, thirty days at $3.00 . 

 Ploughing out, one man and team, ninety- 

 five days at $3.00 



Topping and loading into waggons, 1335.3 



days at $1.00 



Hauling 3 miles to switch, at fifty cents 



per ton 



Freight on railroad to factory .... 



Cost of knives and hoes 



Interest 



Total expenses 



Income. 



4,451.275 tons of beets, at $4.00 . . . 

 Sale of beet tops 



Total income 



Net profit 



$1,666.00 

 1,236.65 



113.80 



283 00 

 1,100.00 



90.00 



285.00 



1,335.30 



2,225.50 



2,225.50 



20.00 



300.00 



$7.00 

 5.19 



.49 



1.19 

 4.62 



.38 



1.19 



5.61 



9.35 



9.35 



.09 



1.26 



$10,880.75 



$45.72 



$.37 

 .28 



.03 



.06 

 .25 



.02 



.06 



.30 



..50 

 .50 



.07 



$2.44 



$17,817.22 

 200.00 



$74.86 

 .84 



$4.00 

 .04 



$18,017.22 



$75.70 



$7,136.4/ 



$29.98 



$4.04 

 $1.60 



General Chipman, from whose report to the San Fran- 

 cisco Board of Trade I take my facts, goes on to say : — 



" California is destined to become the beet sugar plantation 

 of America as it has already become the orchard of America, 

 because pre-eminence must be accorded and must surely come 

 to that State where the conditions necessary to success, both 

 in the growing of the beet and its manufacture into sugar, are 

 most favourable. . . . Briefly summarised, these favourable 

 conditions are : earlier maturity of the beet, earlier opening 



