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Mr. Sanford describes, in the Genesee Farmer, a crop 

 grown by him of 63 tons per acre. 



T. E. Payson, of Deer Island, Boston Harbor, raised 73 

 tons long red mangel-wurzel on an acre of land in 1866. 



Dr. Lettson has raised in England 120 tons mangel-wurzel, 

 tops and roots, on one acre. This is equivalent to about 96 

 tons of roots. Even this enormous yield has doubtless been 

 surpassed in the same country by scientific culture, for the 

 writer has heard descriptions of crops that he cannot now 

 authenticate, of over 100 tons of roots per acre. The yield 

 of sugar beets is usually about two thirds that of mangel- 

 wurzel. 



The average yield of sugar beets in France is over 20 tons 

 per acre. It often rises to 50 tons, while instances of 60, 70, 

 and even 90 tons are not uncommon. 



In Germany the yield varies from 10 to 25 tons. 



Figures, made by Mr. Walsh, to whom reference has just 

 been made, indicate that in his judgment beets can be raised 

 in the West for less than $2 per ton, and that at $3 per ton 

 they would prove to be very profitable to the farmer. The 

 average price paid by European manufacturers is less than 

 $3 per ton. 



The estimate of the Agricultural Department of the United 

 States is, that they can be raised at a cost to sugar manufac- 

 turers of $2.60 per ton. 



In the light of all this testimony, as well as that on pages 

 26 to 39 of this volume, together with the additional fact that 

 beets were furnished by Western farmers in 1866, on contract, 

 for $3.50 per ton, it is not deemed extravagant to assume that 

 sugar manufacturers can be supplied with beets in the West 

 at $4 per ton. 



The next point to establish is the saccharine property of 

 the beet of America as compared with that of Europe. 



The average percentage of sugar in the French beet is n, 

 and in the German beet 13. This is the result of many years 

 of scientific culture, by which the original saccharine proper- 

 ties of the beet have been increased. 



There have been hundreds of tests made in this country 



