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These tests, made in 1866, as well as others made during 

 the past six years, prove conclusively to the writer's mind 

 that American beets are richer in sugar than the French. 

 That they are as rich as those of Germany, and that by prop- 

 er culture, their saccharine properties may be increased at 

 least one per cent. 



If, then, it has been proved that we can economically raise 

 beets in the United States as rich or richer in sugar than 

 those of Europe, it only remains, in order to insure inde- 

 pendence of the rest of the world for our future supplies of 

 sugar, to prove that sugar can be extracted from them at 

 prices enabling the manufacturers to compete with foreign 

 countries. 



The Germania Sugar Company of Chatsworth, Illinois, to 

 which reference is made on page 62, has solved the problem, 

 and although the enterprise has not as yet proved an entire 

 success, yet the causes of its partial and temporary failure are 

 so clear, and so easy to avoid, that no person conversant with 

 the facts can deny that the Company has proved that the 

 manufacture of beet sugar is not only entirely practicable, 

 but must inevitably be highly remunerative. 



I annex a report, made to the Directors of the Illinois Cen- 

 tral Railroad Company, by R. W. Bender, of New York, who 

 visited Chatsworth in January, at the request of the Com- 

 pany, to inquire into the cause of the troubles which were 

 encountered. Mr. Bender is a practical refiner of large ex- 

 perience, and his opinion on the subject of which he treats is 

 conclusive with all who know him, for in his great desire not 

 to mislead others, he is very conservative in the expression 

 of his opinion, taking care to understate rather than to over- 

 state his estimates of the practicability of manufacturing beet 

 sugar in the United States. 



To the Directors of the Illinois Central Railroad Company : 



GENTLEMEN : 



Having recently returned from a visit to the Beet Sugar 

 Works at Chatsworth, Livingston Co., Illinois, I now report 

 the result of my investigation of this subject. 



