66 BEET-ROOT SUGAR AND 



sugar districts of Europe, on the contrary, the fields in 

 the vicinity of a sugar manufactory are covered with 

 the greatest diversity of crops, among which are beets, 

 wheat, rye, oats, barley, corn, rape, flax, tobacco, and 

 all the cultivated grasses. Every field is cultivated 

 close up to the road-side, and the stables are filled with 

 fire cattle, sheep, horses, and swine. 



No farmer needs to be told which system is the best 

 and most enduring. 



M. Dureau, author of several valuable works on 

 beet sugar, and also the editor of the "Journal des 

 Fabricants de Sucre," says " The cultivation of the 

 beet is getting to be highly popular. 



" The president of an agricultural society is sure to 

 gain all hearts when he talks about beets. No agri 

 cultural newspaper can abstain from entertaining its 

 readers with accounts of the precious plant, and there 

 is no farmer who does not introduce it into his fields 

 with the view of its conversion either into sugar or 

 alcohol. Everybody sings its praises ; and surely 

 none have a better right to join in the concert than we, 

 who have always been its advocates for the sake of the 

 industry with which it is allied." 



A French writer, after having demonstrated the im 

 portance of the beet-sugar industry to agriculture, in 

 urging its extension, says, " Who would believe that 

 England, with her poor soil, her wet climate, and her 

 pale sun, could produce crops of grain double ours, 

 and that the yield of her fields surpassed that of the 

 luxuriant plains of Lombardy ? The perfection of her 

 agriculture explains this wonderful production. So 

 does the progress of the manufacture of beet sugar ex- 



