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no small importance to the farmer. The following estimates, re- 

 cently given, are not by an}'- means exaggerated : — 



61,607 tons of beet, at lOs. , £30,803 10 0 



Cost of manufacture, at lis. per ton . 33,883 17 0 



64,687 7 0 



Produce 7 per cent of sugar, at 28s. per c^rt. 136,767 10 0 

 Estimated profit . £72,080 3 0 



The quantity of sngar made from beet-root in France in 1828, "vras 

 about 2,650 tons ; in 1830, its weight was estimated at 6 million 

 kilogrammes* (5,820 tons) ; in 1834, at 26 million liilogrammes 

 (24,000 tons) ; in 1835, 36,000 tons ; in 1836, 49,000 tons. At 

 the commencement of the year 1837, the number of refineries at 

 work or being built was 543 ; on an average 20 kilogrammes of 

 beet-root are required for the production of one kilogi'amme of 

 sugar. The sugar manufactured from the beet-root in France a 

 few years ago was stated to amount to 55,000 tons, or one half of 

 the entire consumption of the kingdom. The Courrier Francais 

 calculated that the beet-root sugar made in France in 1838 

 amounted to 110 million lbs., and the journal added, there is no 

 doubt that, in a few years, the produce will be equal to the entire 

 demand. The cultivation then extended over 150,000 acres, and 

 in the environs of Lille and Valenciennes it has sometimes been as 

 high as 28,000 lbs. per acre. 



From returns of the produce and consumption of beet-root sugar 

 published in the Moniieur, it appears that on the 1st Dec. 1851, 

 there were 335 manufactories in operation, or 81 more than in the 

 corresponding period of 1850. The quantity of sugar made, 

 including the portion lying over from the previous year, amounted 

 to 19,625,386 kilogrammes, and that stored in the public bonding 

 warehouse to 10,556,847. At the end of June, 1852, 329 manufac- 

 tories were at work, or two more than at the same period in 1851. 

 The quantity sold was 62,211,663 kilogrammes, or 9,167,018 

 less, as compared with the corresponding period of the previous 

 year. There remained in stock in the manufactories 91,434,070 

 Idlogrammes, and in the entrepot 4,597,829 kilogrammes, being an 

 increase of 2,568,662 kilogrammes in the manufactories, and a de- 

 crease of 1,292,962 in the entrepots. The manufacture of beet- 

 root sugar is every year assuming in France increased importaiice, 

 and attracts more and more the attention of political economists as 

 a source of national wealth, and of government, as affording matter 

 of taxation. Thirty new factories, got up upon a ver}' extensive 

 scale, are enumerated as going into operation this year. They 

 are located, with but two exceptions, in the north of France ; 

 fifteen of them are in the single department of Xord. Indeed, 

 the manufacture of beet-root sugar is confined, almost exclusively, 

 to the five northern adjacent departments of Nord, Pas de Calais, 



* The kilogramme is equal to 2 lb. 3 oz. avordupoi?t 



