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it will enable our chemists to stud}'^ the soils, and con- 

 sequently the manures that may be required to make 

 the success of a new and great industry certain. 



In answer to the above, we know many will say that 

 thousands of farmers do plant the beet with this idea 

 in view. There may be some few, but we have not 

 been fortunate enough to meet with them either in 

 Pennsylvania or l^ew Jersey, where what is grown 

 are roots wrongly called heeis^ and containing little or 

 no sugar, and having but little practical value. 



,5. Pulp from the Sugar Faclories. 



The beets as before stated, are grown in Europe by 

 the neighboring farmers, who have a right to claim 20 

 per cent, in pulp of the roots supplied, for which is 

 paid about 16 francs ($3.20) per ton ; this they feed to 

 their cattle, who furnish the manure, which is utilized 

 on the same soil on which the roots were grown. In 

 this manner nearly the same elements are returned, 

 when this fertilizer is in sufficient quantities, as had 

 been extracted by this supposed exhausting plant, 

 which in reality furnishes more fertilizing principles 

 than any other ci^p. 



Evidently, the composition of this pulp varies with 

 the factories and the method of extracting. The fol- 

 lowing analysis was made by ourselves of pulp from 

 the northern part of Fi-ance : — 



