ed night and day, could make it for a fraction less than 5 

 cents. 



4. That if we consider in the accounts which have 

 furnished the above result, all the advantages resulting 

 from the sugar manufacture are not embraced, such for in- 

 stance, as the fattening cattle, distillation, the improvement 

 of lands &c. it is fair to conclude that the price above men- 

 tioned (a fraction less than 5 cents,) is not the lowest cost at 

 which it can be made, and this too it 7nust he particularly 

 remarked upon an estimate of only 4 1-2 lbs, of brown su- 

 gar to the 100 lbs, of beets, whilst 5, 6 and even 7 per cent, 

 have of late been obtained ! 



5. That on the basis of only 4 1-2 per cent, the indigen- 

 ous sugar manufactories of France can now support a com- 

 petition with the sugar of her colonies, and that when this 

 art has reached the extension to which it is rapidly ap- 

 proaching, and undergone the improvements of which it 

 is susceptible, the beet sugar will be made as cheap as that 

 from the cane in the East Indies, that is for about 2 cents 

 and a half or three cents per pound. ^ 



To conclude, no doubt can possibly remain on a thorough 

 and candid investigation of the subject, that the introduction 

 of the beet culture and its manufacture into sugar is destin- 

 ed to create a memorable epoch in the prosperity of our 

 Republic, not inferior probably, to the cotton culture, and 

 having over that some preeminent advantages, therefore, to 

 consider it only, as a means of replacing a foreign product, 

 by one of our own growth would be to take a very narrow 

 and inadequate view of the subject. 



