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a good crop, and which, in all probability if in the 

 United States, would not have been considered worth 

 the trouble, the general fertility of our lands seeming 

 to be such that with but little labor wonderful results 

 are obtained. The farmers do not feel it is worth their 

 while to bestow time and money when the crops are 

 satisfactory, but how long will this last? Will they 

 not in time discover that the land requires more atten- 

 tion than has heretofore been given? Will it not then 

 be too late ? Is it possible to convince them of these 

 facts? We doubt it much, and for that reason they 

 will not till the soil as in older countries is done. 



Here above is presented one of the greatest difficul- 

 ties to be contended with in the introduction of the 

 beet culture in America. If subsoil ploughing is 

 neglected there is no possibility of making the manu- 

 facture of sugar from the beet a profitable enterprise. 

 These facts being known, it might be well to have 

 European farmers brought here. 



The beet sugar enterprise has, like all other new in- 

 dusti'ies, many opponents that advance various theories 

 jDcrtaining to the probability of its success, the most 

 important being that it may not struggle against the 

 cane, and, as long as there remains sufficient land for 

 the cultivation of the latter, it will be impossible to think 

 of sugar from any other source. In answer to these 

 we would refer the reader to facts mentioned above,^ 



' See Sugar Industry in U. S. A,, p, 45. 



