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and ten tons per acre, the sugar-beet never yields at anything 

 like such a rate. The following statement respecting the yield 

 and amount of sugar obtained from three kinds of beets is quite 

 interesting and suggestive regarding the important question, 

 what kind of beet roots are the most desirable for cultivation 

 for the manufacture of sugar. 



Metz (fodder beet), . 

 Imperial (sugar-beet), 

 SilesianWhite(sugar-beet) , 



Annual yield 

 of Soots per acre. 



86,457 pounds. 

 59,613 « 

 52,787 « 



Percentage of 

 Sugar. 



4.5 per cent. 

 10.51 " 

 13.64 " 



Amount of Sugar in 

 the entire Root Crop. 



3,890 pounds. 

 6,265 " 

 7,200 " 



These few numerical statements teach most decidedly, that 

 mere quantity will not insure success for the beet-sugar interest. 

 We find in practice as a general rule that the mean annual yield 

 of sugar-beets is less than in the cases cited. In Silesia, the 

 crop averages from 18,000 to 19,000 pounds per acre, and the 

 beet juice itself is expected to contain throughout the entire 

 sugar-making season from 11 to 13 per cent of sugar, which 

 indicates that scarcely any roots with less than 12.5 per cent 

 of sugar are worked in that district. In Saxony, from 23,500 

 to 24,000 pounds are obtained per acre, and, in exceptional 

 cases, even as high as from 30,000 to 31,000 pounds are reported. 

 In France, where the sugar resulting, and not the roots used for 

 its manufacture, are taxed, the annual yield is larger than in 

 Germany, one acre yielding there from 38,000 to 40,000 

 pounds of roots. Yet a larger final yielcJ of sugar is claimed 

 from one acre in Germany than in France.* The cost of pro- 

 duction in (jermany is set down at from 21 to 22 cents per 

 hundred pounds of sugar-beet roots. 



Those who sell their sugar-beets at the factory, receive from 



* In Germany 100 pounds of sugar-beet roots are taxed (8 sgr.) 19.44 cents (1869). 

 In France every (.52 kilogrammes) 114.4 pounds of beet sugar are taxed (13 francs and 75 

 centimes) 2.66 dollars. Every 1,000 kilogramme.^ or 2,200 pounds of sugar-beet roots 

 yield on an average (52 kilogrammes) 114.4 pounds of sugar in the form in which it is 

 taxed. (Walkhoff.) 



