States, upon the building of jetties, the employment of 

 Chinese labor, or upon a temperature for the maturity 

 that is never attained. Neither does it depend 

 upon the refiner, after it has traveled hundreds of 

 of miles (thus increasing its cost), or upon the drying- 

 up of thousands of acres of swamps, etc. (where it 

 should be grown but cannot be), or upon the utilization 

 of unpopulated districts, where labor is scarce. The 

 manufacture of beet sugar is not based upon a series of 

 hypotheses absurdly false, such as comparing it with 

 another plant of the same kind, but superior to it, whose 

 juice contains but a small percentage of impurities, in 

 which case the crystallization is comparatively easy. 

 Sugar may be made from the beet during a period of 

 a few hours' visit at the factory ; whilst, on the other 

 hand, if one should attempt to use the sorghum or the 

 early amber, one month after harvesting, several weeks 

 would be required for the processes. What is sup- 

 posed to be true, relating to the sugar beet, is true ; 

 in other words, it is a Northern sugar-yielding plant, 

 as it has proved for fifty or more years in Europe. The 

 coloring substances nearly all other sources of sugar 

 possess, and which cannot be eliminated, are in 

 the beet-juice entirely extracted. No money 

 need be spent on unnecessary experiments, 

 these have all been made in Europe. Is it not 

 consequently important that our Hon. Commissioner 

 of Agriculture, G. B. Loring, should ask for a Govern- 

 ment appropriation, having these facts in view ? As a 

 hearty support of this kind would, without doubt, be 

 advantageous, and possibly the only means of attain- 

 ing that which could not otherwise be achieved, we 

 have endeavored to call attention to the fact that sugar 

 beets in the North, when grown under ordinary cir- 

 cumstances, may compete with the sugar cane on a well- 

 organized Southern sugar plantation ; and they will, 



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