operations, rent of land, interest of money invested 

 in the agricultural implements, etc. 



As for the amount of sugar that may be extracted, 

 we will take the results obtained at Portland * in 1880, 

 under unfavorable circumstances : from 70,000 tons 

 of roots 420 tons of sugar were obtained, corres- 

 ponding to a yield of at least six per cent. During 

 the same campaign in Delaware, with fewer beets, this 

 average was nearly maintained. We are also informed 

 that at the Alvarado Factory these results were prac- 

 tically the same ; consequently, with ten tons or 

 22,000 pounds, at six per cent., we would have 1,320 

 pounds of sugar, which were and may be sold at eight 

 cents per pound, or $105.60 ; with this we would have, 

 say, fifty per cent, of molasses, or 660 pounds, which 

 were and may be sold at two and a half cents per 

 pound (in Delaware and Maine the molasses was sold 

 at twenty cents per gallon). 



RETURNS. 



From sugar at eight cents per pound, $105.60 

 From molasses at two and a half 



cents per pound, 16.50 



From pulp, forty per cent, or four 



tons at $i per ton, 4-OO 



Total receipts, $ I26 1 I __ 



It has been generally admitted that the cost of work- 

 ing one ton of beets, including wear and tear of ma- 

 chines, interest on money, labor, etc., is $3 a ton. This 

 is an average ; consequently for profits we would have: 

 For cultivation of one acre of ten 



tons, $50.00 



Expenses of manufacture, 30.00 



$80.00 



See The Sugar Beet for description of Portland factory. 

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