(Profit, in converted produce, <fec., &c.) 



Every cent of increase in the price of the sugar would be 

 equal to fifteen dollars additional profit per acre, and every 

 one-half per cent increase in crystallized sugar from every hun- 

 dred pounds of beet roots worked, would add about 115 pounds 

 of sugar to yield, or 18.05 additional profit per acre. These 

 additions in profit are by no means beyond reach, for the 

 best management in Europe realizes them. 



To enter, in concluding this Report, upon a detailed calcula- 

 tion of what our expenses for the production of the above 

 articles per acre would be, could be at best but a mere approxi- 

 mation. 



It may suffice to keep in mind that in Europe from forty-six 

 to fifty dollars per acre has to be paid in taxes to the govern- 

 ment ; that our lands are cheaper, and that machinery is taking 

 daily more and more the place of the hand in planting seeds, in 

 cleaning the fields, and in securing the juice from the beet 

 roots. Where the final pecuniary results may differ so widely, 

 as must be quite apparent from previous statements, in conse- 

 quence of a more or less favorable location of the factory and 

 the skill engaged in its management, it is unsafe to state a 

 definite sum of profit. It must here, as in every similar 

 instance of an industrial enterprise, suffice to know that money 

 can be made if the business be intelligently managed. As far 

 as the farmer is concerned there is little risk. While the profits 

 of the beet-sugar manufacturer may be lessened by changes in 

 provisions of political economy, the farmer is not necessarily 

 subjected to influences of that kind. In this case, he is aware 

 that root crops are profitable, and that aside from this, his farm 

 lands will receive a treatment which has everywhere been 

 proved to enrich, rather than to exhaust the soil. 



To restore his land to something like its original productive- 



