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tenth per cent, which is the amount extracted at the date- 

 of this latter table. 



I would also call your attention to columns 6 and 7, as- 

 showing the gradual increase in the extraction of sugar 

 from the beet, owing to the production of a better quality 

 of beet, as well as the improvements made in ihe method 

 of manufacture. As regards the possibility of our being 

 able to raise a beet of good quality, there is very little doubt 

 when we consider that excellent sugar beets have been pro- 

 duced here experimentally, and that the beet flourishes in 

 Europe in such a variety of climate, from Italy to Russia 

 and Sweden. In Sweden, where the season is very shorty 

 beets having a high per cent, of sugar are produced in pay- 

 ing quantities. I would again refer, whilst considering the 

 probability of the production of the beet at a suflficiently low 

 figure, to the enormous sum paid as tax — from ^34 to $54 

 per acre. 



As regards the comparative yield of the beet and cane : 

 In Louisana the average yield per acre is about seventeen 

 tons, and five per cent- is extracted : 



pounds. 

 Amount of sugar produced per acre in Louisiana, 1,904. 

 Amount of sugar produced per acre in foreign 



cane districts, 1,600 to 4,800. 



Amount of beet sugar produced per acre in Ger- 

 many, 2,078. 



Amount of beet sugar produced per acre in France, 2,403. 



Russia, 1,236. 

 Only one-eighth of the amount of sugar consumed in the 

 United States in 1875 was prqduced in Louisiana. 



The following is an estimate which I have made upon the 

 probable returns of a manufactory consuming fifteen 

 million pounds of beets in one hundred days. The manu- 

 factory would cost about sixty thousand dollars. Stock of 

 bone black (75,000 lbs) $2,250. 



