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Appendices 



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 



