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prise to us. In France the molasses is considered of 

 no value except for feeding to animals or for distilling, 

 and it sells for four or five cents per gallon. The 

 molasses from the sugar in question is of a bright 

 amber color, and so pure and pleasant as to be pre- 

 ferred by many to any but sugar bakers'." He says, 

 " It will be readily conceived that a small establish- 

 ment, dependent upon farmers for material, paying for 

 it twice the cost of its production, and executing by 

 hand several heavy and tedious operations, which 

 ought to be performed by steam, water, or horse 

 power, cannot furnish accurate data for determining 

 the expense of making beet sugar. The actual cost 

 when the material was good has been eleven cents 

 per pound, the pulp and manure not taken into ac- 

 count. We are of opinion that, with proper and suf- 

 ficient means, beet sugar may be manufactured in the 

 United States at four cents per pound. When the 

 manufacture shall have become domesticated among 

 us, it will probably be produced at a cost less than 

 that." 



In relation to the effect of a beet crop on succeed- 

 ing crops, Mr. Child says, " In Northampton wheat 

 has succeeded beets the present season with rather 

 striking success. A farmer let a field abutting on 

 Connecticut River on shares. On a part of it he 

 raised beets last year, and on the other Indian corn. 

 The whole was equally manured. The corn yielded 

 seventy-five bushels to the acre, and the beets were 

 tolerably weeded. The wheat was harvested, and his 

 share delivered in the barn without any attention to 

 it on his part. In due time a laborer was employed 



