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tie was before used except as food, for animals. And let It 

 not be thought that the beet, is unworthy of a place 

 amongst the other main sources, from which man derives 

 his subsistence — a few facts may serve to elucidate the 

 truth of this position. 



It is found that in France, the lands employed to supply 

 the sugar manufactories with the raw material, produce 

 on an average from seventeen to eighteen, tons of beets 

 per acre, there is no reason to believe that ours will fall 

 short of this, taking then the product of sugar, at 6 per 

 cent, the amount per acre, would be 2040 lbs. and in some 

 instances from 4 to 5000 lbs. per acre, have been produced 

 by a heavy crop of beets. This estimate, by no means 

 exaggerated, shows clearly that double the iveight of sugar 

 is obtained from an acre of land, that the same land will 

 supply in wheat ; again the leaves of the beet supply a 

 useful manure for the soil which produced it, and the 

 fulf cakes applied as food for stock give more than an 

 equivalent for the wheat straw as a means of maintaining 

 and encreasing, the fertility of the ground. We have seen 

 that a given surface of land will supply double the weight 

 of sugar, that it will furnish of loheat, now if the price of 

 this last product is lower than that of the first, it is solely 

 because the culture of the beet, and the expense of convert- 

 ing it into sugar, requires more manual labor ; but it is 

 precisely on this account that we may fairly look for new 

 sources of employment for the industry and ingenuity of 

 our fellow citizens, and increased prosperity for our coun- 

 try. 



Sugar manufactories must then neccessarily increase 

 the alimentary resources of the country, at the same time 

 its population, and with that the demand for labor, and 

 productions of every description, they will moreover sup- 

 ply agriculture with one of the most effectual means of 



