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a half a pound of seed, say for one arpent of 3*200 

 feet, 1600 pounds. If we calculate the value of this 

 seed which in France averages 100 francs for 100 kilos 

 or 9 cents per pound, the crop will be worth $144. 



The cost of production, &c., amounting at the 

 most to $44, leaves a clear profit of $100 per arpent, 



H. ECONOMICAL CONSIDERATIONS. 



Before terminating this important chapter, on the 

 cultivation of the sugar beet, I will present a few 

 economical considerations. 



Admitting that the sugar industry be estab- 

 lished in Ganada r the culitvation of the sugar beet 

 itself for manufacturing purposes will pay those who 

 engage in it. To establish this, it will suffice to give 

 a table showing the expenditure necessitated by its 

 cultivation a'nd to compare the expenses with the 

 receipts. 



An acre will yield from 16 to "20 tons of beets, 

 with their heads off, or 640 to 800 bushels at the rate 

 of 40 bushels to the ton. These beets could be sold to 

 the factories at the rate of $4 a ton or 10 cents a 

 bushel. 



This is the average price paid in the different 

 countries in which the sugar industry is established, 

 and is in -fact the real value for manufacture, so that 

 this price could hardly be increased without gravely 

 compromising the interests of the manufacture and 

 even perhaps its existence ; and since the sugar 

 industry is called upon to assist the agricultural, the 



