PREFACE. 



A VERY ample Introduction leaves but little to be said by 

 the author of this treatise by way of Preface. Suffice it to 

 say, that the work of studying this subject, and preparing 

 this book, has throughout been a pure labor of love, and has 

 been undertaken with a view to contribute his portion to- 

 wards a vast and vital measure for the wealth and industrial 

 independence of his country. 



The United States pays an annual tribute of $80,000,000 to 

 foreign countries and foreign labor for sugar, and it is at 

 once the most costly, and the most bulky single article 

 which we import from abroad. There is no country in the 

 world, and there never has been one, in which all of its people 

 are or have been as thoroughly and completely employed as 

 they should be, or would desire to be, and hence the supreme 

 importance, by means of discrimination in that taxation which 

 is necessary in every land, of naturalizing every possible in- 

 dustry, and thus adding to the employments of the people. 



The beet would form a new and valuable addition to a pro- 

 per rotation of crops in this country — a measure which must { 

 be practiced if our soil is to be rescued from that exhaustion 

 which has steadily progressed since the settlement of America ' 

 — and with its accompanying sugar industry would aid in that 

 diversification of employments which must be established if 

 the migratory tendencies of our people are to be arrested, and 

 our civilization, wealth, and power are to be built up and 

 carried to a high level. Beet sugar can, the author has no 

 hesitation in saying, be here produced as cheaply as cane sugar 

 is now furnished to us, and even if for a time it should cost 



