62 THE SUGAR BEET. 



hol, the taxation on the same would be $44,000,000.' 

 This would not be the case, but we are quite sure that 

 the increased revenues from this source would amount 

 to considerably more than the present duties on sugars. 

 It is quite probable that distillers would find the beet 

 more profitable than the utilization of grain. Up to 

 the present day one of the great drawbacks has been 

 that a beet sugar factory cannot be worked on a small 

 scale, and a large one requires an enormous capital, 

 which, as many suppose, is invested on an uncertainty, 

 but such is not the case, unless some great blunder 

 is committed in the start, such as selecting a bad 

 location near the sea,^ or where there is likely to be 

 a scarcity of water, or where within a few years forests 

 had been cut down, these, in many cases, having left 

 their roots remaining in the soil ; or again, at some dis- 

 tance from railroads, canals, rivers, etc., thus rendering 

 the transportation difficult, which would greatly en- 

 hance the first cost of the sugar produced; or again, 

 many other errors which cannot be pardoned. 



' The above calculation is made with the present taxation as a bjisis, $0.70 

 for each proof gallon. 



2 Here the land would be greatly chai'ged with chloride of sodium, this 

 would have a most serious effect upon the (pantity of sugar the manufacturer 

 would be able to extract. 



