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of $30 per acre, including breaking up the prairie. Crop 

 on raw prairie ground 10 tons per acre ; crop on improved 

 land 15 tons per acre. He believes there is no difficulty, after 

 two or three years of cultivation, in raising beets at $2 per 

 ton. 



The late William H. Belcher, of St. Louis, believed, as the 

 result of very extended and particular inquiries and observa- 

 tion, that beet could be raised at $2 per ton. 



Theodore Gennert, of Chatsworth, Illinois, who raised 400 

 acres of beets last year, staced that they cost less than $3 

 per ton, and believes that when the soil is fully subdued they 

 can be raised a good deal cheaper. 



Maurice A. Mot raised in 1862 ten acres of beets at Cherry 

 Valley, near Newark, Ohio. The soil, with the exception of 

 little more than an acre, was quite poor, and the crop very 

 light on the poor land, but his beets cost him only $2.65 per 

 ton. Several of the neighboring farmers offered to cultivate 

 another crop of beets on the same ground the following year 

 at $10 per acre. 



Joseph Sullivan, of Columbus, Ohio, says, "I have no 

 doubt that an average yield of 30 tons of beets per acre, upon 

 good, suitable soil, moderately well cultivated, can be secured. 

 Corn ground which produces sixty-five bushels per acre, may 

 be easily made to produce 30 or 35 tons of beets." 



The late John W. Massey, of Morris, Illinois, wrote in 

 1865, in relation to cost of cultivating beets, and their yield 

 in his region, " that it would take a little more work per acre 

 than corn, and probably less than potatoes. His experience 

 of more than 20 years in Illinois led him to believe that the 

 cost of cultivating an acre of beets would be about the same 

 as for sorghum, say about $30, and that the crop was 15 to 

 20 tons per acre. 



John W. Walsh, of Chicago, published in 1863 a pamphlet, 

 "Observations on Beet Sugar and Sugar-beet Culture," in 

 which he stated that 15 tons per acre was a fair yield, but 18 

 to 24 was not uncommon. That he had known of frequent 

 instances of crops of 36, 39, and 42 tons, and even as high as 

 90 tons being produced on rich loams. 

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