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seven per cent. I have no doubt it would be more, 

 for by the method recommended, and which is in use 

 in France, the yield is eight per cent. The price of 

 sugar is also calculated at 8^ cents per pound, but 

 samples made by the process referred to are declared 

 to be now worth an average of thirteen cents. 



The value of the molasses T have placed at four 

 cents per gallon, but it will produce twenty-five per 

 cent, of its weight in 90 alcohol, and the market 

 value of a material that will give that result is cer 

 tainly not less than twenty-five cents per gallon.* 



I have placed the market value of the pulp at two 

 dollars per ton, at which price it has been ascertained, 

 by years of experiment, to be equivalent to hay at six 

 dollars per ton ; therefore it cannot be said that the 

 estimate is too high. 



On the other hand, beets are charged at four dollars 

 per ton, upon which there is little doubt a saving of 

 fifty cents per ton, or twelve thousand dollars, could be 

 effected. On pages 26 to 39 the probable cost of beets 

 is discussed. There can be little doubt that the actual 

 cost to the farmer will rarely exceed three dollars per 

 ton, even with small crops, while with twenty or thirty 

 tons per acre, the larger of which is by no means an 

 uncommon yield, the cost would be from one dollar 

 and a half to two dollars a ton. Manufacturers could 



* The molasses contains from forty-five to fifty-five per cent, of 

 crystallizable sugar. Until recently no economical method for its 

 extraction was known. Last year, however, three or four estab 

 lishments were erected in Europe for that purpose, and I have 

 been assured that nearly all the sugar can be extracted at a cost 

 of time and a half cents per pound. 



