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CHAPTER lY. 



PROBABLE RESULTS WHICH WOULD BE PRODUCED BY THE 

 INTRODUCTION OF THE BEET SUGAR INDUSTRY IN THE 

 UNITED STATES. 



As shown, we send $80,000,000 yearly to foreign 

 lands for the importation of sugars, which should and 

 might be expended in the employment of home labor. 

 The capital in our own country is entirely sufficient to 

 enable us to build 900 beet sugar factories, here supply- 

 ing our home market with 1,654,747,854 lbs. of sugar.^ 

 This would necessitate the cultivation of 800,000 acres 

 of land in beets ; and, if due allowance for the rotation 

 of crops be made, would require 3,200,000 acres. The 

 beets thus produced would be 27,000,000,000 lbs. 

 The working of these would require about 4,000,000,- 

 000 lbs. (1,730,000 tons) of coal. Besides the above 

 sugar, we would have 5,400,000,000 lbs. of pulp, repre- 

 senting 30,000,000 lbs. of meat, then again about 

 1,000,000,000 lbs. of molasses, which, when reduced to 

 alcohol, would be 31,000,000 gallons at 96° B. The 

 above would give employment to 270,000 men, women, 



' In the above calculation we do not even consider what would be required 

 in some twenty years from to-day, but take the consumption of 1877, and base 

 the calculations upon the results obtained in the arrondissement of Cambrai, 

 France. 



