46 BEET-ROOT SUGAR AND 



The amount of sugar produced was seven and one 

 half per cent. ; but the quality was not so good as in 

 the previously described cases, although the first 

 quality, which amounted to four per cent, of the beets 

 worked, sold readily at seventy-five francs the hun- 

 dred kilogrammes, or six and one half cents per 

 pound. 



