APPENDIX. 



SINCE the foregoing pages were written, considerable in- 

 formation has been acquired, which throws additional light 

 upon the subject treated of in this volume, particularly in re- 

 lation to the cost and quality of American beets. 



As regards cost, the estimates of cultivators, based upon re- 

 sults on their own farms, vary from 75 cents to $3.75 per ton.* 



P. T. Quinn, of Newark, New Jersey, manager of the farm 

 of the late Professor Mapes, says, that after land has been 

 " broken up" he can cultivate sugar beets at $16 per acre, in 

 the best manner, " not letting a weed show itself," and ob- 

 tain crops of from 25 to 30 tons per acre. The above cost 

 covering every expense, including that of harvest. 



J. C. Thompson, of Staten Island, says he has obtained 40 

 tons of sugar beets from an acre, and that he can certainly 

 get 30 tons at a cost not exceeding $25, and by extra pains, 

 could obtain 50 tons. 



Emory Rider has raised 30 tons per acre, at Hackensack, 

 New Jersey, and counts with certainty upon 20 tons, at a cost 

 not exceeding $28, including "pitting" the beets. 



Hon. Ezra Cornell, of Ithaca, New York, has raised 20 tons 

 per acre, and is confident that all expenses cannot exceed $30, 

 or at most $35 per acre. He believes that beets would be a 

 profitable crop at $2.50 per ton. , 



Sugar beets have been cultivated on a large scale in 

 Illinois, upon the farm of a wealthy land owner, at a cost 



* As the ton is generally reckoned at 2000 pounds in the United States, 

 the figures in this Appendix will be based on that weight, although in 

 the preceding volume the ton was reckoned at 2240 pounds. 



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