SUGAR IXDUSTRT IN UNITED STATES. 



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official figures for. the arrondissement of Valenciennes, 

 Department du Nord, France: — 



(Barley excepted, the number of hectares cultivated, 

 as shown, has increased.) 



We have talked with sugar men upon this subject, 

 and they contend that the government will tax home 

 sugar, and in this manner the possibility of competing 

 with foreign markets can no longer be thought of. If 

 this tax was not imposed there would be a yearly de- 

 crease of $40,000,000 in the revenue by reason of the 

 loss of duties of foreign sugars. This taxation might 

 be adopted, but it would not be owing to any difference 

 in the yearly government receipts, as, on the contrary, 

 these would be considerably augmented. If the entire 

 molasses derived from beets be transformed into alco- 



