242 now TO MAKE THE FAEM PAY. 



to, will catcU you napping. When done it will be brittle ir' 

 cooled suddenly on snow or ice. To clarify syrup, strain it 

 through a cloth while hot, into a kettle, and when cool, add an 

 C4ig and a half pint of milk well beaten together, for every five- 

 gallons of syrup ; mix it, and put it on the fire, heat gradually 

 to boiling, when all impurities will rise to the surface, and 

 should be at once skimmed ofi'. This makes a beautiful syrup, 

 and, when further evaporated, a very pure sugar. Thirty 

 maples would supply almost any farmer with syrup and sugar, 

 at much less expense than to purchase them at present prices. 



Beet Eoot Sugak. We use in the United States, yearly, 

 four hundred thousand tons of sugar, three hundred and fifty 

 thousand tons of which is imported. Instead of this, we should 

 not onl}'- produce all we use, but become large exporters. This 

 end can be aceomplished, if we will turn our attention to the 

 sugar beet. 



The production of beet sugar, throughout the world, is now 

 about six hundred and fifty thousand tons, or one fourth of the 

 whole production of sugar. We have millions of acres adapted 

 to the cultivation of the sugar beet. We have the best labor 

 saving machinery of any country on the globe, and there is no 

 good reason why we should not produce a million tons .of 

 sugar annually, within ten years. We shall endeavor to show 

 that it IS to our pecuniary, and especially to our agricultural 

 interests, to do so. 



The cost of raising the beet cannot, under judicious cultiva- 

 tion, exceed three dollars per ton, and we think that they can 

 be raised for two dollars per ton. But taking the highest esti- 

 mate, of three dollars per ton, there is left a large margin for 

 profit, as one ton of beets will yield from one hundred and 

 forty to one hundred and eighty pounds of refined sugar; about 

 fifty pounds of molasses suitable for distillation; five hundred 



