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per cent, of sugar is obtained. By the best processes 

 nine per cent, of sugar and two and a half per cent of 

 molasses can be and repeatedly have been extracted 

 from beets containing twelve and a half per cent, of 

 saccharine matter, which is the amount in the beets 

 raised in Illinois on the first experiment. I submit, 

 therefore, the accompanying table as an indication, on 

 the one hand, of a result that is possible to be re 

 alized, and also, on the other, of a result that in the 

 present state of the art is certain to be at least 

 equalled. 



In this table sugar is credited at ten cents a pound, 

 molasses at ten cents per gallon, and pulp at two dol 

 lars per ton. Expenses are reckoned as in the pre 

 ceding table on page 49. 



TABLE 



Showing the Products of Sugar from 24,000 Tons of 

 Beets, yielding Six, Seven, Eight, and Nine per 

 cent., with the Amount and Percentage of Projit 

 on a Capital of $300,000. Taxes and Internal 

 Revenue not deducted. 



Profit per cent. 



68* 



On pages 40 to 48 I have discussed fully the proba 

 ble cost of manufacturing beet-root sugar, and have 

 arrived at the conclusion that under no circumstances, 

 with a yield of seven per cent, of sugar, can the cost 



