be at least $40.00 per acre. If the cost of manufacture 

 should be identical with that required by sugar beets, 

 we would have for the three tons $9.00, or a total of 

 $49.00 for the cost of cultivation and manufacture. 

 The profits would consequently be negative, or, in 

 other words, there would be a loss of $11.00. If we 

 should admit that by careful selection of seed, and the 

 most improved methods of cultivation upon suitable 

 lands, the average yield to the acre would become 

 equal to that of sugar beets, or ten tons, it would 

 necessarily be a crop (as it always has been) upon 

 which very little reliance could be placed, in conse- 

 quence of the extreme tenderness of the plant. We 

 are willing to throw aside these arguments, and admit 

 that it is equal to the beet from every point of view, 

 but there remains a factor which cannot possibly be 

 overlooked, and that is a natural color peculiar to this 

 sugar ; and this cannot be eliminated by any known 

 economical method. If we should admit that it could 

 be done, the cost of the 'sugar must necessarily be 

 greater than were there no necessity for the expensive 

 removal. Sugar, to yield a high price, must be free 

 from all foreign substances. 



Sugar from the White Potato. 



The idea of this source is foolish in the extreme. 

 Many argue that sugar has been made from it. 

 So it has, but not cane sugar. The starch sugar 

 generally referred to is obtained by the simple addition 

 of an acid, and the whole becomes changed into grape 

 sugar or glucose. Many other substances may be 

 used for the manufacture of this same sugar, such as 

 paper, saw-dust, flax, cotton and linen rags, sea-weeds, 



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