CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



Introduction xi 



PART I. 



CHAPTER I. 



History of the Flucttjations in the Beet Sugar Industry 

 IN Europe. 



Production of beet sugar in Franco, 182G-78 . . • ■• .' 32 j 



Germany ............ 35 



System of taxation in Germany ........ 36 



Production of the beet sugar in ZoUverein, 1886-65; Austria . . 37 

 Average annual production, etc., of beet sugar in Austria, 1834-6 7; 



system of taxation in Austria ; Belgium ; system of taxation in Belgium 38 

 Holland; system of taxation in Holland ; Russia; system of taxation in 



Russia; general production of beet sugar in Europe, 1877-78 . . 39 



CHAPTER II. 



Synopsis of the Attempts made in the United States to 

 Introduce the Beet Sugar Industry. 



Production in California, 1870-73 ........ -13 



CHAPTER III. ^---^ 



The Present Condition of the Sugar Industry in the 

 United States. 



Consumption of sugar in the United States, 1860-76 ; consumption in 



1874 46 



Countries from which imported, and quantities, 1877 ; sugar produced in 



the United States 47 



Louisiana, Texas, Florida, etc. ........ 48 



Duties and sugar frauds ......... 50 



Polarization . . . . . . . . . . • .51 



CHAPTER IV. 



Probable Results which would be Produced by the Introduction 

 OF the Beet Sugar Industry in the United States. 



American yield of agricultural produce In 1876 ..... 56 

 French yield of agricultural produce In the arrondissement of Valenciennes 6 1 



