2i6 Beet Sugar in United States. 



estimate of the profits from beet cultivation is given for a 

 farm in Utah. The expenses are put at £6 19s. per acre; 

 this sum including the cost of all labour and field operations, 

 with three miles haulage of the produce, but no allowance is 

 made for rent, nor does there appear to have been any outlay 

 on manures. The receipts for 13 tons of beets at 4 dols. 

 (i6s. 8d.) per ton, which was the price paid by the factory, 

 amounted to £\o i6s. 8d., thus showing a profit of about 

 £1 17s. 8d. per acre. 



At the date of Mr. Saylor's report, there were nine beet- 

 sugar factories in operation in the United States, viz., one 

 in the New York State, two in Nebraska, one in Utah, one in 

 New Mexico, and four in California ; while others were in 

 the course of construction or proposed in various States. The 

 capacity of these factories ranges from about 300 to 1,100 

 tons a day, but it is intended that some of the new ones shall 

 be larger. 



During the investigations of the year certain questions 

 relating to the industry were asked of the managers and 

 experts of the factories. From the answers received it appears 

 that the factories pay from 14s. 7d. to i8s. Qd. per ton for 

 the beets. The rent of sugar-beet land varies considerably : 

 in Nebraska it was put at i6s. 8d. to 25 s. per acre, but in othei 

 districts it ran as high as 40s. to 80s., while in some localities 

 the farmers paid a fourth or a fifth of the crop. There 

 appears to be considerable demand for the pulp for cattle- 

 feeding near some of the factories, especially for creameries ; 

 one factory stated that it got 5d. a ton for the pulp, while 

 another sold it at 2s. As regards the molasses, some of the 

 factories throw it away, others adopt certain processes for 

 extracting some of the sugar, and one sells it at Jd. or £d. per 

 gallon, to be used in the manufacture of alcohol. All the 

 factories estimated the cost of making beet-sugar ready for 

 the market at about i Jd. or ifd. per pound, the highest quota- 

 tion given being 15s. 5d. per 100 lbs. 



