74 BEET-ROOT SUGAR AND 



climates to compete with beet sugar in the United 

 States. 



That as the climate of the Southern States does not 

 permit the cane to ripen, and as the yield of sugar 

 from unripe cane is comparatively small, it is impossi- 

 ble to make sugar from cane in the United States so 

 cheaply as it can be made from beets. 



And that at present prices beet sugar can be manu- 

 factured in this country at a profit of from eighty to 

 one hundred per cent. 



By the new internal revenue law beet sugar enjoys 

 a protection over the sugar of the cane of from one to 

 two cents per pound in currency. 



Duties on foreign sugars are from three to four and 

 a half cents per pound in gold. 



The necessities of government, and the very ap- 

 parent advantages arising from introducing the manu- 

 facture of beet sugar into this country, render it 

 probable that the protection now accorded will be 

 maintained for the present. 



The cost of transportation from the seaboard to Il- 

 linois is an additional protection on sugar raised in 

 Illinois of about one cent per pound. 



The amount of beets raised in France in 1865 could 

 not have been, on 297,000 acres of land, less than 

 5,000,000 tons, producing at least 1,000,000 tons of 

 pulp an amount sufficient to feed 90,000 cattle or 

 nearly 1,000,000 sheep for one year, or to fatten in the 

 winter months nearly three times that number. It 

 also furnished agriculture with more than 1,500,000 

 tons of manure. In an agricultural point of view, the 



