PROFITS. 



Returns, $126.10 



Expenses, 80.00 



Net profit, $46.10 



from one acre of land under cultivation. 



These figures are as accurate as we can make 

 them, and have been based on actual data obtained in 

 the North with the beet, upon ordinary land and in 

 the South with the sugar cane upon a Southern plan- 

 tation. The difference, $46.00 less $20.00 or $26. 10, 

 favor of the Sugar Beet, we trust will be sufficient to 

 convince our readers of the impossibility of the cane, 

 under the best of circumstances in the South, compet- 

 ing with the sugar beet in the North, even by present 

 methods. The transportation of the sugar north must 

 be done in the one case ; whilst in the other it need not 

 be, for the reason that it is produced in the centre of 

 demand. In the one case the article must be refined, 

 and in the other that process is not requisite (by recent 

 improvements refined sugar may be made directly from 

 the beet). 



Nothing is in the way for the complete success of 

 the beet-sugar industry in our country but the confi- 

 dence of our people (as they imagine that the problem 

 is a difficult one), and the strict adherence to foreign 

 methods. 



Condition of American Sugar Industry. 



Too much confidence is placed in the future 

 possible Southern cane sugar supply ; and the 

 complete ignorance of the masses of the difficul- 

 ties to be overcome may partially explain why more 

 has not been done, and why the industry has not been 



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