limited, 4 months, or 120 days is amply sufficient to fatten 

 cattle, and it not unfrequently happens when fed on the 

 pulp cake, that at the end of three months they are fit for 

 market ; a factory might either buy lean stock to fatten, or 

 (which is perhaps better) sell the pulp to farmers or graz- 

 iers, for the same purpose This product sells in France 

 for 3 dollars the 2200 lbs, and a celebrated manuflicturer of 

 Arras declares that it was worth to him in stall feeding 

 cattle 4 dollars 75 cents, the (1000 kilograms) 2200 lbs, as 

 shown by a very exact account of an experiment he made 

 to satisfy himself on this important point; but taking its 

 value at three dollars for 2200 lbs, of pulp it will return to 

 the manufacturer nearly 1-4 of the cost of the beets, valued 

 at 3 dollars 50 cents, besides leaving a handsome profit to 

 the farmer or grazier who may employ it. The pulp can 

 be easily preserved moist for 3 to 4 months, and by drying 

 it, a much longer time, every kind of animal give it a pre- 

 ference over almost any other food. 



The manufacture of the beet sugar may be undertaken 

 on almost any scale, but not with equal advantage, the re- 

 sult of a careful estimate of the comparitive profits of large 

 and small factories, and of the manufactory carried on 

 with, or without intermission, by which is understood dur- 

 ing the day only, or otherwise continued night and day, is 

 as follows. 



I That the Factories worked night and day are more 

 profitable, other things equal, than those worked only dur- 

 ing the day. 



2. That in all cases those on the largest scale are dways 

 the most lucrative. 



3. That the sugar made by a small factory working by 

 day alone, should not cost the maker more than from 5 to 6 

 cents per lb, and that one four times as large, and continu- 



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