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to our climate, soils and improving methods of agriculture ; 

 to the comparatively limited area where the cane can thrive, 

 in support of their views. But there are others who point 

 to the price of labor, the expensive processes compared with 

 those necessary for the raising and working up of the sugar 

 cane, and the small profits now being made by our cane 

 sugar manufacturers and refiners, and declare the whole 

 idea a snare and a delusion. 



To show the profit and loss side of the question, I will 

 append a calculation made by Mr. H. P. Humphrey, of 

 Philadelphia, a distinguished sugar chemist, who has given 

 much thought and time to the subject. He has addressed 

 a circular to capitalists and others in the hope that a care- 

 ful and thorough experiment, backed by capital, may be 

 made to prove finally the possibility or impossibility of 

 planting this new industry firmly in our midst. 



After quoting the statistics I have already recorded to 

 show the amount of beet sugar produced in the world in 

 1865-76, Mr. Humphrey goes on to say : 



" The following table represents the statistics of the Ger- 

 man Empire in regard to the beet sugar industry, as gath- 

 ered from data in "Stammer's Jahresbericht," the most re- 

 liable authority obtainable : 



