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quantity of sugar supplied by a given surface of ground, 

 we shall arrive at a very different conclusion ; the large 

 roots will then be found decidedly preferable in this re- 

 spect, and the advantage of the farmer in giving a prefer- 

 ence to these can admit of no doubt, at least till long expe- 

 rience shall have assigned a proportionate value to each 

 variety, and a Tariff shall be settled between the producer 

 and the manufacturer. On the whole, then, we are forced 

 to conclude that there is no description of beet that may 

 not be turned to good account under proper management, 

 this is the opinion of Dubrunfaut, of M. Crespel of Arras, 

 a manufacturer who will this year himself alone contribute 

 three millions of pounds of indigenous sugar towards the 

 consumptiDn of France! I say under prober manage- 

 ment, because the large and watery roots require a differ- 

 ent treatment from the smaller and richer sorts, and unless 

 this is well understood it would certainly be much safer to 

 use the latter kind only. 



A beet of a hard, solid texture, is always preferable to 

 the soft tough ones, the former will cut brittle, the latter 

 the reverse. The Areometer, after all, will offer the sur- 

 est means of discovering the real val'ue of the roots, for this 

 purpose a certain and equal quantity may be rasped by 

 hand of the roots to be submitted to trial, the juice is then 

 expressed through a linen cloth — that which shows the 

 highest degree on the Areometer (i. e. the greater density) 

 is the richest in sugar. 



The plants intended for seed should be set out three feet 

 apart every way, when ripe the plant must be cut ddwn 

 and the seed collected by hand ; it must then be first spread 

 on a cloth in the open air, then in the sun to dry it com- 

 pletely; without this precaution this seed is so liable to 

 heat that it would certainly be injured in the barn. In a 

 general way twenty plants will give about a bushel of 



